{"id":60176,"date":"2018-02-28T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60176"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:44:08","slug":"turkey-welcomes-1-46m-foreign-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-welcomes-1-46m-foreign-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey welcomes 1.46M foreign visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey welcomed 1.46 million foreign visitors in January 2018, the Culture and Tourism Ministry said Wednesday.<\/h2>\n<p>According to provisional police data, 1.46 million foreign nationals visited Turkey in January, up 38.5 percent from the 1.05 million who visited in January 2017, said the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Well over half of the foreign visitors last month &#8212; 56.9 percent or over 831,000 people &#8212; came to the tourist hot spot of Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Iran topped the list of visitors by country, with over 154,000, followed by Georgia with nearly 151,000 visitors, and Bulgarian with over 119,000.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, 1.7 million foreign visitors came to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey welcomed 32.4 million foreign tourists in 2017. In 2014, the number of tourists visiting Turkey reached an all-time high of 37 million.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey welcomed 1.46 million foreign visitors in January 2018, the Culture and Tourism Ministry said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,51,117,173],"tags":[77896,39564,16577,77182],"class_list":["post-60176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-travel","category-turkey-headlines","tag-holiday","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}