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Turkey sees increase of incoming German tourists

Tourism Materials 2 May 2018 11:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 2

By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:

In March 2018, 220,198 German citizens visited Turkey, which is 89,888 tourists more than in March 2017, Ministry of culture and tourism of Turkey told Trend May 2.

The ministry stated, the share of German citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey in March 2018 accounted for 10.29 percent. For comparison, in March 2017, this figure accounted for 8.21 percent.

The ministry also noted that 416,802 tourists from Germany visited Turkey in the first quarter of this year.

It should be noted that in March of this year Turkey was visited by over 2.879 million foreign tourists.

At the end of 1Q2018, 7.263 million foreign tourists visited Turkey.

Following the results of 1Q2018, Turkey's income from tourism increased by 31.3 percent compared to the same period last year.

Turkey's income from tourism in the first three months of this year amounted to $4.425 billion. Foreign nationals accounted for 76.1 percent and Turkish nationals living abroad - for 23.9 percent of the total income for the period.

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