Turkey’s tourism revenue drops 16.5 percent in first quarter
Source: Hurriyet Daily News
Turkeys 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.
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scscholar
(2,902 posts)expect people to want to avoid you. Avoid you.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)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.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It's full of both historical sites... and cats!