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Over 60,000 tourists from Azerbaijan visited Turkey in May: ministry

Tourism Materials 29 June 2018 19:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 29

By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:

In May 2018, 62,885 tourists from Azerbaijan visited Turkey, which is 11.48 percent more than in the same month of 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey told Trend June 29.

The ministry noted that the share of Azerbaijani citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey in May 2018 was 1.71 percent. For comparison, this figure was 1.95 percent in May 2017.

The ministry noted that in May 2018, Turkey was visited by 3,678,440 tourists, which is 27.29 percent more than in the same period of 2017.

In May 2018, the tourism province of Antalya was visited by 1,575,613 tourists, which is 42.83 percent of the total number of tourists. Istanbul was visited by 984,028 people, which is 26.75 percent of the total number of tourists who visited Turkey during that period.

“The remaining 30.42 percent of tourists in May 2018 accounted for the share of other tourism provinces of the country,” the ministry said.

The ministry also noted that in May 2018, 436,887 tourists from Germany visited Turkey, which is 11.88 percent more than in the same month of 2017.

“During May this year, Turkey was visited by 273,203 tourists from the UK, 203,232 tourists from Georgia and 197,324 tourists from Bulgaria,” the ministry said.

In January-May 2018, 11,462,407 tourists visited Turkey, which is 30.8 percent more than in the same period of 2017.

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