Baku, Azerbaijan, June 4
By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:
In April 2018, 22,308 citizens of Uzbekistan visited Turkey, which is 62.35 percent more than in the same month of 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey told Trend June 4.
The share of Uzbek citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey in April 2018 is 0.84 percent. For comparison, in April 2017, this figure was 0.66 percent, the ministry noted.
In April of this year, Turkey was visited by over 2.7 million foreign tourists.
In 1Q2018, 7.263 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. Around 76.1 percent of the total profit for the reporting period falls to the share of foreign nationals, while 23.9 percent accounted for Turkish nationals residing abroad.
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