Antalya records drop in foreign tourist arrivals in Q1

The number of tourists visiting Antalya in the first quarter of 2015 drops compare to same period last year. There is a 2.6% decrease in the arrivals compare to last year. Although the number of tourists visiting Antalya from Germany, UK, Finland, and Poland increases, 47 percent decrease in Russian tourists resulted with a drop in total tourist arrivals to the Mediterranean city in the first quarter of 2015.

A total of 531.934 international visitors arrived in Antalya during the first three months of 2015. Last year, 546.008 visited the city.

	2014	2015	Change
GERMANY	220.258	267.814	21,6
IRAN	52.256	40.271	-22,9
RUSSIA	61.425	32.336	-47,4
UK	28.453	31.398	10,4
THE NETHERLANDS	24.857	22.149	-10,9
BELGIUM	15.225	14.224	-6,6
NORWAY	13.292	13.984	5,2
DENMARK	21.266	13.366	-37,1
SWEDEN	16.229	12.158	-25,1
AUSTRIA	13.038	11.958	-8,3
FINLAND	6.676	11.886	78,0
SWITZERLAND	7.631	7.684	0,7
POLAND	2.858	7.122	149,2
ISRAIL	8.559	4.851	-43,3
UKRAINE	5.395	4.147	-23,1
FRANCE	17.028	3.707	-78,2
ITALY	1.425	2.817	97,7
ESTONIA	1.473	2.170	47,3
IRELAND	345	1.861	439,4
T.R.N.C.	1.506	1.856	23,2
CZECH REP.	3.091	1.711	-44,6
SLOVAKIA	1.374	1.434	4,4
HUNGARY	1.188	1.245	4,8
SLOVENIA	1.563	1.220	-21,9
LITHUANIA	1.081	1.212	12,1
USA	694	911	31,3
KAZAKHSTAN	596	897	50,5
BELARUS	1.131	868	-23,3
CROATIA	1.617	794	-50,9
SPAIN	1.808	711	-60,7
THE PHILIPPINES	651	580	-10,9
JORDAN	583	575	-1,4
LATVIA	860	565	-34,3
INDIA	678	554	-18,3
SYRIA	568	548	-3,5
SERBIA	407	539	32,4
CHINA	266	529	98,9
ROMANIA	659	460	-30,2
BULGARIA	250	451	80,4
KOSOVO	302	425	40,7
GREECE	545	424	-22,2
BOSNIA & HERZ.	298	406	36,2
OTHER	6.603	7.116	7,7
TOTAL	546.008	531.934	-2,6