The Central Bank announced the Balance of Payments Report for the third quarter of 2016...

According to the report announced by the Central Bank;

It was observed that the declining trend in the services account surplus continued in the third quarter of the year. Net travel revenues fell by 33.7 percent year-on-year to 14.8 billion US dollars, while net transportation revenues also declined by 9.5 percent to 5.1 billion US dollars.

In the third quarter of 2016, net travel revenues decreased by 35.2 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, coming in at 6.0 billion US dollars. During this period, travel revenues decreased by 33.0 percent and expenditures by 17.3 percent. Meanwhile, the number of tourists recorded a decline of 35.9 percent.

When examined by country groups, it was observed that all country groups showed significant declines compared to the same
period of the previous year; the largest decreases occurred in the Americas and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.

The average spending of foreigners decreased by 7.2 percent compared to the same period of last year to 547 dollars, while the average spending of our citizens residing abroad increased by 4.7 percent to 718 dollars.

Link for the detailed report: www.turob.com/istatistikler.aspx