Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 1
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Some 190,607 tourists from Iran visited Turkey in August 2018, which is 36.23 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 August 2018 accounted for 3.54 percent.
For comparison, this figure was 6.42 percent in August 2017.
Some 1,507,787 tourists from Iran visited Turkey in January-August 2018, which is 3.31 percent less than in the same period of 2017.
The ministry noted that 5,383,332 tourists visited Turkey in August 2018, which is 15.56 percent more than in the same month of 2017.
Some 654,737 tourists from Germany, 363,433 - from the UK, 235,364 - from Bulgaria and 204,092 tourists from Georgia visited Turkey in August 2018, and 3,925,706 tourists who visited Turkey in August 2018, fall to the share of other countries.
During the above-mentioned period, 2,074,498 tourists, accounting for 38,54 percent of the total number of tourists, visited the Turkish province of Antalya.
In August 2018, 1,391,036 tourists, accounting for 25.84 percent of the total number of tourists, visited Istanbul.
As of January-August 2018, 32,410,034 tourists visited Turkey, which is 22,92 percent more than in January-August 2017.
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