Baku, Azerbaijan, May 31
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
In April 2018, 292,720 tourists from Russia visited Turkey, which is 110,865 people more than in April 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey told Trend May 31.
The Ministry noted that Russian tourists hold the first place in the list of countries, which tourists visited Turkey in April 2018.
"The share of Russian citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey in April 2018 was 11.02 percent. For comparison, in April 2017, this figure was 8.78 percent.
In total, in April this year, Turkey was visited by over 2.7 million foreign tourists.
In 1Q2018, 7.26 million foreign tourists visited Turkey.
At the end of January-March 2018, Turkey's income from tourism increased by 31.3 percent compared to the same period last year.
Turkey's revenues from tourism in the first three months of this year amounted to $4,425 billion. 76.1 per cent of the total profit for this period falls on foreign citizens, and 23.9 per cent – on Turkish citizens residing abroad.
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