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Ministry: About 80% of tourists visiting Turkey arrived by air

Türkiye Materials 11 June 2019 16:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, June 11

By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:

Of the 3.293 million tourists, who visited Turkey in April 2019, 2.527 million arrived into the country by air, which is 77.04 percent of the total number, Trend reports referring to the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism.

In April 2019, 75.673 tourists arrived in Turkey by sea, which is 2.30 percent of their total number.

Moreover, 680,000 tourists arrived in Turkey by road and rail transport.

The ministry noted that in April 2019, by air, 930,000 tourists arrived in the Turkish province of Antalya, and 1.326 million arrived in Istanbul.

In April 2019, 3.293 million tourists visited Turkey, which is 24.01 percent more compared to April 2018.

During the reporting period, over 1.3 million tourists visited Istanbul, while 931,000 tourists visited Antalya.

In January-April 2019, 8.735 million tourists visited Turkey, which is 12.22 percent more compared to the same period of 2018.

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