Tourism season to restart in Turkey by end of May

Turkey's tourism season is expected to be on hold until the end of May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's culture and tourism minister said Thursday, Daily Sabah reports.

"Hopefully, we will see that tourism activities will start again during the Ramadan Feast," Mehmet Nuri Ersoy noted. Eid al-Fitr, or Ramadan Bayram, will be celebrated at the end of May this year. He added that the first activities will start with domestic tourists.

Turkey has earned $34.5 billion from tourism last year.