The ministry said that the figure rose by 32.55 percent on a yearly basis, up from 5.87 million in January-April last year.<\/p>\n
Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city by population and one of its top tourist draws, saw the highest number of visitors, with nearly 3.9 million in the four-month period.<\/p>\n
The Mediterranean resort city Antalya came in second, with 1.06 million foreign visitors.<\/p>\n
As for the nationalities of foreign visitors, Iran took first place with 11.02 percent — some 860,000 visitors — over the same period, followed by Germany (8.63 percent) and Georgia (8.37 percent).<\/p>\n
Official data showed that air was the preferred means of transport, with 8.23 million travelers, while 3.5 million used roads and around 235,000 came by sea.<\/p>\n
In April, 2.65 million foreigners also visited the country, up 28.27 percent from April 2017.<\/p>\n
In 2016, some 35 million foreigners visited the country, in the midst of a tourism slowdown after the Fetullah Terrorist Organization’s (FETO) defeated coup, but the sector improved in 2017<\/p>\n
Turkey expects 40 million tourists from abroad this year, according to private sector representatives and officials.<\/p>\n
Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmus has set the country’s 2023 targets as 50 million tourists and $50 billion in income.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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