Turkey to become world-leading tourist destination
Turkey will become the leading tourist destination, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, the Turkish newspaper Star reported on February 8.
Over the 13-year rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey achieved great successes in the field of tourism, the president said.
Erdogan said that Turkey will do everything possible to increase
the number of tourists visiting the country.
In 2015, as many as 29.6 million tourists visited the country, and
12.4 million of them visited Istanbul, according to the Institute
of Statistics of Turkey.
In the third quarter of 2015, Turkey's tourism revenues totaled $12.2 billion.
As of today, the world’s top tourist destination is France, with 83 million foreign tourists. So it remains the global leader, with the dynamic tourism sector boasting a surplus and rapidly transforming under the combined effect of a new, emerging clientele and a broader range of things on offer to international tourists.
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