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Türkiye attracted more than 49 M foreign tourists in 2023
Türkiye
welcomed 49.2 million foreign tourists in 2023, hiking 10.4% from the previous
year, according to the Culture and Tourism Ministry on Wednesday.
The
figure exceeded its pre-pandemic period level of 45 million in 2019, the
ministry data showed.
Istanbul,
Türkiye's largest city by population, was the top tourist draw, attracting 17.4
million foreign visitors last year.
The
famed resort city of Antalya on the Turkish Riviera ranked second with 14.8
million foreign visitors in 2023.
The
northwestern province of Edirne, which borders both Bulgaria and Greece and the
Aegean province of Mugla followed them with 4.7 million and 3.3 million,
respectively.
Russians
made up 12.8% of all foreign visitors or at 6.3 million, rising 20.7% from the
previous year.
It
was followed by Germans at 6.2 million (up 9% annually), Britons at 3.8 million
(up 12.8%), Bulgarians at 2.9 million (up 0.4%), and Iranians at 2.5 million
(up 7.4%).
Separate
data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) showed that Türkiye's
tourism income surged 16.9% year-on-year to total at $54.3 billion in 2023.
Monthly
data
In
December 2023, foreign arrivals in Türkiye rose 3.5% at an annualized pace to
2.5 million.
Bulgarians
made up the largest chunk of foreign visitors in December with 251,895
arrivals.
They
were followed by Germans with 233,416 visitors, Russians with 229,979, and
Iranians with 213,156 last month.
Istanbul
saw 53% of all foreign visitors, or 1.3 million in December. Edirne was placed
second with 14.3% or 356,255 tourists. Antalya followed with a 10.5% share or
259,568 visitors.
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