The number of foreign arrivals to Turkey plunged more than 30% in the first seven months of the year, official data showed on Aug. 31.
Foreign tourist arrivals fell 30.3% in the first seven months of the year, with 14.2 million people arriving during the period, data from the Tourism Ministry showed. The number of Russians visiting the country in this period showed an 89% decrease compared to the same period of 2015. Visitors from western European countries also decreased an average of 40% in the mentioned period, as well as arrivals from the United States and Canada.
Foreign arrivals declined 36.7% to around 3.5 million July, normally the hottest tourism month in Turkey, with Russian tourists declining 93% to around 47,000 compared to the same month of 2015.
The number of arrivals from Germany also dropped by 25.6 percent in the first seven months of the year and from Britain by 29.2%, to around 2.1 million and 970,000, respectively.
The highest number of foreign visitors in July was seen from Germany with 660,532 arrivals, followed by Britain with 277,857 visitors and Georgia with 210,105 visitors, according to the ministry’s data, Hürriyet Daily reports.
