Published on : Saturday, May 2, 2020
In March, the number of visitors declined 67.83% to 718,097 as compared to a year ago according to Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry.
The Turkish Security General Directorate and the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said that the foreign visits for the quarter stood at 4,238,644, representing a 22.11% drop and visits by Turks who reside abroad dropped 14.41% to 1,213,356 in the quarter.
The number of all visitors in March was 968,537, a 64.73% drop as compared to year-on-year. It was 5.4 million in the January-March period reflecting a 20.52% drop.
Tourism revenue dropped 11.4% to $4.1 billion in the first quarter when Turkey this was when Turkey had the highest number of visitors from Bulgaria, Germany and Georgia. While the most visited cities were Istanbul, Edirne and Antalya.
Turkey took precautions within days after the first cases of the novel coronavirus were detected, however, the first steps in Europe began more than five weeks later.
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