Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 31
By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:
Some 175,069 tourists from Iran visited Turkey in July 2018, which is 31.06 percent less than in the same month of 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey told Trend.
The ministry noted that the share of Iranian citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey in July 2018 accounted for 3.09 percent.
For comparison, this figure was 5 percent in July 2017.
Some 1,317,180 tourists from Iran visited Turkey in January-July 2018, which is 4.5 percent more than in the same period of 2017.
The ministry noted that 5,671,801 tourists visited Turkey in July 2018, which is 11.74 percent more than in the same period of 2017.
Some 761,278 tourists from Germany, 354,851 - from the UK, 218,685 - from the Netherlands and 199,684 tourists from Ukraine visited Turkey in July 2018, and 4,142,303 tourists who visited Turkey in July 2018, fall to the share of other countries.
During the above-mentioned period, 2,103,421 tourists, accounting for 37.09 percent of the total number of tourists, visited the Turkish province of Antalya.
In July 2018, 1,502,397 tourists, accounting for 26.49 percent of the total number of tourists, visited Istanbul.
As of January-July 2018, 21,639,802 tourists visited Turkey, which is 24.9 percent more than in January-July 2017.
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