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MowCowWhoHow III

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Fri Apr 29, 2016, 01:30 PM Apr 2016

Turkey’s tourism revenue drops 16.5 percent in first quarter

Source: Hurriyet Daily News

Turkey’s tourism revenue decreased by 16.5 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period of 2015 due to a significant decrease in the number of Russian tourists visiting the country and rising security concerns after a number of suicide attacks.

In the first three months of 2016, tourism revenue decreased to $4.07 billion, according to data that was released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on April 29. While 71.3 percent of the revenue came from foreign visitors, some 28.7 percent was obtained from citizens who reside abroad, the data showed.

Tourism revenue was $31.5 billion in 2015 with an 8.3 percent decline compared to the previous year.

The number of foreign arrivals in Turkey declined approximately 13 percent in March to 1.65 million compared to the same month of 2015, the sharpest drop since October 2006, according to data from the Tourism Ministry. The number of foreign arrivals to Turkey declined by 10.3 percent to around 4 million in the first three months of the year compared to the same period of 2015, according to the ministry data. The number of arrivals from Russia saw a roughly 59 percent decline in the period in question, according to the data that was released on April 28.


Read more: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-tourism-revenue-drops-165-percent-in-first-quarter.aspx?pageID=238&nID=98521&NewsCatID=349



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Turkey’s tourism revenue drops 16.5 percent in first quarter (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III Apr 2016 OP
Give CONservatives power... scscholar Apr 2016 #1
Thanks for the link! NWCorona Apr 2016 #2
Pity. I would LOVE to go to Istanbul. KamaAina Apr 2016 #3

NWCorona

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2. Thanks for the link!
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 01:44 PM
Apr 2016

I've commented on this before. I've been there a few times. Both for work and vacation and I loved it. That was before the hard shift. I'm not going back anytime soon.

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