Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 30
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
In January-October 2018, 743,695 Azerbaijani tourists visited Turkey, which is 12.82 percent more than in the same period of 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey told Trend Nov. 30.
The share of Azerbaijani citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey during the ten months of 2018 was 2.09 percent, the ministry said.
For comparison, this figure was 2.27 percent in October 2017.
In October 2018, 62,681 tourists from Azerbaijan visited Turkey, which is 11.64 percent more than in the same month of 2017, the ministry noted.
"The share of Azerbaijani citizens in the total number of foreigners who visited Turkey in October 2018 accounted to 1.67 percent. For comparison, this figure was 1.88 percent in October 2017" the ministry added.
In October 2018, 3.8 million tourists visited Turkey, which is 25.48 percent more compared to October 2017, according to the ministry.
As of January-October 2018, 35,571,419 tourists visited Turkey, which is 22.43 percent more than in January-October 2017, the ministry noted.
The ministry said that in October 2018, 1,359,212 tourists visited Turkey's Antalya province, while Istanbul's visitors amounted to 1,230,070 tourists.
In January-October 2018, Antalya and Istanbul were visited by 12,008,939 and 11,340,081 tourists, respectively, the ministry added.
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