Turkey achieved a 24.01 percent increase in tourism according to April figures...

Turkey achieved a 24.01 percent increase in tourism according to April figures. The increase for the first 4 months of the year was 12.22 percent.

The increases in the number of foreign visitors from Germany and Russia reached their highest levels of the year.

According to the border entry and exit statistics of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey, which achieved a 24.01 percent increase in April compared with the same month of last year, hosted 8,735,268 foreign visitors in the first 4 months of the year, again a 12.22 percent increase compared with the same period of the previous year.

In April, when tourism saw its highest increase of 2019, 3,293,176 foreign visitors visited Turkey.

In the ranking of the countries sending the most visitors to Turkey, the numbers of visitors from Germany and Russia showed large increases compared with the previous year. While the increase from Germany reached nearly 50 percent, increases of up to 35 percent were experienced from Russia.

In April, the Russian Federation ranked first with a 33.77 percent increase and 391,579 foreign visitors, while Germany ranked second with a 47.55 percent increase and 376,059 foreign visitors, and Bulgaria ranked third with a 26.75 percent increase and 256,072 foreign visitors. Bulgaria was followed by the United Kingdom and Georgia.

In the first 4-month period of the year, Germany ranked first with a 19.63 percent increase and 803,483 visitors. Germany was followed by Bulgaria in second place with a 27.45 percent increase and 738,784 foreign visitors, and by the Russian Federation in third place with a 35.46 percent increase and 710,293 foreign visitors. Russia was followed in turn by Iran and Georgia.

The ranking of the provinces to which the border gates most used by foreigners entering Turkey belong was as follows: Istanbul, Antalya and Edirne.