Turkish
Culture and Tourism Ministry announcedthat
the number of foreign visitors to Turkey rose 0.6
percent between January and November of this year, reaching 30.4
million people.
Turkey
enjoyed a 2.21 percent year-on-year rise in November in the number of
tourists. A total of 1.63 million people visited the country in the
11th month of the year. It rose 0.37 percent the preceding
month.
Turkey's
total revenue from tourism in 2011 equaled $23 billion, while this
figure for the first three quarters of this year was $17.3 billion.
In
the period between January and November 2012, most of tourists came
from Germany with 4.8 million. Russia and Britain followed Germany.
