Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 27
By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:
A number of Azerbaijani tourists visiting Turkey exceeded 1.974 million in the last three years (2015—2017), the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TURSAB) said in its report.
In 2015, 602,488 Azerbaijani tourists visited Turkey, in 2016 – 606,223, in 2017 – 765,514, the report noted.
According to the report, the Azerbaijani visitors accounted for 1.66 percent of the total number of tourists in Turkey, 2.39 percent in 2016 and 2.36 percent in 2017.
Turkey’s revenues from tourism increased by 18.9 percent and totaled $26.283 billion in 2017 as compared to 2016, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) said earlier.
The message said that 77.4 percent of total volume of revenues accounted for the share of foreign tourists, and 22.6 percent – for the share of Turkish citizens living abroad.
The number of tourists who visited Turkey in 4Q17 rose by 23.1 percent as compared to the same period of 2016.
In 2017, 32.4 million tourists visited Turkey, 27.84 percent higher than in 2016.
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