Boom for Turkish tourism continues in July 2017

The number of foreigners visiting Turkey continues to increase in July 2017. Following 43% increase in June 2017, the number of foreigners visiting Turkey increased by 46.36% in July 2017, compared to July 2016. According to the tourism statistics announced by the Tourism Ministry, the number of arriving foreigners in Turkey in July 2017 has reached 5,075,961.

The cities with border gates with the most number of arriving foreigners in July 2017 are:

1-Antalya %35.13 (1,783,107)                                                                     

2-İstanbul %26.01 (1,320,098)                                                                    

3-Edirne %11.99 (608,718)                                                                           

4-Muğla %7.84 (397,841)                                                                              

5-Artvin %6.07 (308,327)                                                                              

The number of arriving foreigners in Turkey between January-July 2017 increased by 21.94% compared to the same period of the previous year.

The number of arriving foreigners in Turkey between January-July 2017 has reached 17,325,410 with 21.94% increase compared to the same period of the previous year.                                                                       

The cities with border gates with the most number of arriving foreigners between January-July 2017 are:                                                                            

1-İstanbul %32.96 (5,709,917)                                                                    

2-Antalya %29.18 (5,056,198)                                                                     

3-Edirne %10.39 (1,800,517)                                                                       

4-Artvin %8.35 (1,445,869)                                                                          

5-Muğla %6.07 (1,052,043)

DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGNERS ARRIVING IN TURKEY BY NATIONALITIES IN
(2015-2017*) JULY (TOP FIVE)
Countries	2017*	Share%	2016	Share%	2015	Share%
Russian Fed.	835 525	16,46	47 788	1,38	686 256	12,52
Germany	680 616	13,41	660 532	19,05	798 295	14,57
U.K.	277 955	5,48	277 857	8,01	421 556	7,69
Georgia	265 024	5,22	210 105	6,06	201 485	3,68
Iran	253 950	5,00	133 951	3,86	210 325	3,84
Other	2 762 891	54,43	2 137 969	61,64	3 162 585	57,71
TOTAL	5 075 961	100,00	3 468 202	100,00	5 480 502	100,00

(*): Provisional Data.

Russian Federation takes the first place by its share of %16.46 (835,525) in the comparison of arriving foreign visitors by nationality in July 2017, Germany takes the second place by its share of % 13,41                         (680,616) as well as UK is the third country by its share of %5.48 (277,955). Georgia and Iran follow UK.                                             

DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGNERS ARRIVING IN TURKEY BY NATIONALITIES IN
(2015-2017*) JANUARY-JULY (TOP FIVE)
Countries	2017*	Share%	2016	Share%	2015	Share%
Russian Fed.	2 527 628	14,59	231 616	1,63	2 140 874	10,51
Germany	1 927 360	11,12	2 163 481	15,23	2 908 058	14,27
Georgia	1 338 295	7,72	1 248 333	8,79	1 026 863	5,04
Iran	1 260 431	7,28	993 905	7,00	1 020 115	5,01
Bulgaria	972 770	5,61	950 470	6,69	1 001 264	4,91
Other	9 298 926	53,67	8 620 623	60,67	12 278 082	60,26
TOTAL	17 325 410	100,00	14 208 428	100,00	20 375 256	100,00

Russian Fed. takes the first place by its share of 14.59% (2,527,628) in the comparison of arriving foreign visitors by nationality in January-July 2017, Germany takes the second place by its share of 11.12% (1,927,360) as well as Georgia is the third country by its share of 7.72% (1,338,295). Iran and Bulgaria follow Georgia.                                                                                               

In the first seven months of the year, a total of 7.1 million tourists visited Turkey from Europe, with a 7.1 percent year-on-year increase.

COMPARISON OF FOREIGNERS ARRIVING IN TURKEY BY NATIONALITIES IN 2015-2017(*)         (JANUARY-JULY)
	YEARS			SHARE (%)			RATE OF CHANGE %
NATIONALITY	2015	2016	2017*	2015	2016	2017*	2016/2015	2017/2016
Algeria	81 976	89 679	106 060	0,40	0,63	0,61	9,40	18,27
Morocco	53 993	47 704	54 589	0,26	0,34	0,32	-11,65	14,43
South Africa	28 009	17 511	18 085	0,14	0,12	0,10	-37,48	3,28
Libyan A.J.	157 946	39 347	47 532	0,78	0,28	0,27	-75,09	20,80
Egypt	54 621	54 788	53 466	0,27	0,39	0,31	0,31	-2,41
Sudan	6 562	6 106	6 377	0,03	0,04	0,04	-6,95	4,44
Tunusia	57 516	58 062	59 374	0,28	0,41	0,34	0,95	2,26
O. AFRICA COUNTRIES	56 121	51 272	54 737	0,28	0,36	0,32	-8,64	6,76
TOTAL AFRICA	496 744	364 469	400 220	2,44	2,57	2,31	-26,63	9,81
Argentina	43 171	41 286	25 921	0,21	0,29	0,15	-4,37	-37,22
Brazil	53 162	24 333	24 566	0,26	0,17	0,14	-54,23	0,96
Colombia	16 603	11 299	12 949	0,08	0,08	0,07	-31,95	14,60
Chile	14 547	7 224	4 759	0,07	0,05	0,03	-50,34	-34,12
Venezuela	3 682	2 590	3 359	0,02	0,02	0,02	-29,66	29,69
O.S. AMERICA COUNTRIES	12 833	8 239	7 934	0,06	0,06	0,05	-35,80	-3,70
TOTAL SOUTH AMERICA	143 998	94 971	79 488	0,71	0,67	0,46	-34,05	-16,30
TOTAL NORTH AMERICA	9 823	8 012	8 241	0,05	0,06	0,05	-18,44	2,86
TOTAL CENTRAL AMERICA	5 940	3 996	4 274	0,03	0,03	0,02	-32,73	6,96
TOTAL AMERICA	159 761	106 979	92 003	0,78	0,75	0,53	-33,04	-14,00
Bahrain	16 203	21 986	31 941	0,08	0,15	0,18	35,69	45,28
U.A.E.	29 066	20 993	26 478	0,14	0,15	0,15	-27,77	26,13
Iraq	544 883	195 186	455 126	2,67	1,37	2,63	-64,18	133,18
Israel	104 126	137 809	188 151	0,51	0,97	1,09	32,35	36,53
Qatar	20 879	18 193	23 685	0,10	0,13	0,14	-12,86	30,19
Kuwait	97 046	91 998	140 338	0,48	0,65	0,81	-5,20	52,54
T.R.N.Cyprus	134 609	127 841	136 313	0,66	0,90	0,79	-5,03	6,63
Lebanon	92 307	94 407	108 722	0,45	0,66	0,63	2,28	15,16
S. Arabia	267 332	248 875	340 870	1,31	1,75	1,97	-6,90	36,96
Jordan	79 426	94 999	135 403	0,39	0,67	0,78	19,61	42,53
Yemen	12 962	11 961	14 870	0,06	0,08	0,09	-7,72	24,32
O.W. ASIA COUNTRIES	441 124	177 021	220 297	2,16	1,25	1,27	-59,87	24,45
T. WESTERN ASIA	1 839 963	1 241 269	1 822 194	9,03	8,74	10,52	-32,54	46,80
Bangladesh	7 076	5 797	5 576	0,03	0,04	0,03	-18,08	-3,81
China	184 900	98 106	119 207	0,91	0,69	0,69	-46,94	21,51
Indonesia	35 191	28 063	49 859	0,17	0,20	0,29	-20,26	77,67
Philippines	45 373	33 379	33 411	0,22	0,23	0,19	-26,43	0,10
India	75 844	52 356	42 608	0,37	0,37	0,25	-30,97	-18,62
Iran	1 020 115	993 905	1 260 431	5,01	7,00	7,28	-2,57	26,82
Malaysia	40 174	29 720	26 725	0,20	0,21	0,15	-26,02	-10,08
Pakistan	31 044	30 080	36 599	0,15	0,21	0,21	-3,11	21,67
Singapore	14 241	9 567	7 295	0,07	0,07	0,04	-32,82	-23,75
Thailand	15 714	7 066	13 167	0,08	0,05	0,08	-55,03	86,34
O.S. ASIA COUNTRIES	64 814	74 407	73 034	0,32	0,52	0,42	14,80	-1,85
T. SOUTH ASIA	1 534 486	1 362 446	1 667 912	7,53	9,59	9,63	-11,21	22,42
TOTAL ASIA	3 374 449	2 603 715	3 490 106	16,56	18,33	20,14	-22,84	34,04
Germany	2 908 058	2 163 481	1 927 360	14,27	15,23	11,12	-25,60	-10,91
Austria	294 371	198 493	174 568	1,44	1,40	1,01	-32,57	-12,05
Belgium	383 029	264 742	259 981	1,88	1,86	1,50	-30,88	-1,80
Czech Rep.	119 563	48 418	63 119	0,59	0,34	0,36	-59,50	30,36
Denmark	252 999	222 420	165 823	1,24	1,57	0,96	-12,09	-25,45
Finland	125 620	78 815	52 498	0,62	0,55	0,30	-37,26	-33,39
France	502 820	347 277	336 548	2,47	2,44	1,94	-30,93	-3,09
Netherlands	760 913	565 840	454 180	3,73	3,98	2,62	-25,64	-19,73
U.K.	1 371 869	970 938	885 227	6,73	6,83	5,11	-29,23	-8,83
Ireland	59 319	33 435	27 532	0,29	0,24	0,16	-43,64	-17,66
Spain	139 252	62 007	51 856	0,68	0,44	0,30	-55,47	-16,37
Sweden	382 433	208 816	169 823	1,88	1,47	0,98	-45,40	-18,67
Switzerland	219 454	129 187	112 795	1,08	0,91	0,65	-41,13	-12,69
Italy	277 556	125 981	104 613	1,36	0,89	0,60	-54,61	-16,96
Iceland	5 632	2 529	1 314	0,03	0,02	0,01	-55,10	-48,04
Luxembourg	6 358	2 600	2 520	0,03	0,02	0,01	-59,11	-3,08
Hungary	78 584	37 640	40 859	0,39	0,26	0,24	-52,10	8,55
Norway	188 948	107 180	71 816	0,93	0,75	0,41	-43,28	-32,99
Poland	301 163	119 607	152 346	1,48	0,84	0,88	-60,28	27,37
Portugal	30 140	15 973	13 210	0,15	0,11	0,08	-47,00	-17,30
Slovakia	86 867	33 500	50 311	0,43	0,24	0,29	-61,44	50,18
Greece	413 094	326 713	306 889	2,03	2,30	1,77	-20,91	-6,07
O. E. OECD COUNTRIES			1			0,00
TOTAL EUROPE OECD	8 908 042	6 065 592	5 425 189	43,72	42,69	31,31	-31,91	-10,56
Albania	42 696	44 155	51 822	0,21	0,31	0,30	3,42	17,36
Bosnia Herzegovina	48 488	38 043	48 701	0,24	0,27	0,28	-21,54	28,02
Bulgaria	1 001 264	950 470	972 770	4,91	6,69	5,61	-5,07	2,35
Estonia	33 938	22 410	24 631	0,17	0,16	0,14	-33,97	9,91
Greek Cypriot Administration	6 573	4 920	5 406	0,03	0,03	0,03	-25,15	9,88
Croatia	24 388	13 335	12 105	0,12	0,09	0,07	-45,32	-9,22
Montenegro	11 266	9 723	10 117	0,06	0,07	0,06	-13,70	4,05
Kosovo	55 019	57 530	62 138	0,27	0,40	0,36	4,56	8,01
Latvia	30 920	18 901	21 065	0,15	0,13	0,12	-38,87	11,45
Lithuania	61 362	61 838	68 465	0,30	0,44	0,40	0,78	10,72
Rep. of, Macedonia	93 730	80 914	89 711	0,46	0,57	0,52	-13,67	10,87
Malta	4 844	3 141	2 679	0,02	0,02	0,02	-35,16	-14,71
Romania	248 554	212 381	222 475	1,22	1,49	1,28	-14,55	4,75
Serbia	103 087	62 703	74 141	0,51	0,44	0,43	-39,17	18,24
Slovenia	23 618	11 792	10 500	0,12	0,08	0,06	-50,07	-10,96
O. E OECD EXTERNAL COUNTRIES	1 724	978	982	0,01	0,01	0,01	-43,27	0,41
TOTAL EUROPE OECD EXTERNAL	1 791 471	1 593 234	1 677 708	8,79	11,21	9,68	-11,07	5,30
TOTAL EUROPE	10 699 513	7 658 826	7 102 897	52,51	53,90	41,00	-28,42	-7,26
Azerbaijan	347 946	317 472	412 058	1,71	2,23	2,38	-8,76	29,79
Belarus	124 585	57 183	131 499	0,61	0,40	0,76	-54,10	129,96
Armenia	25 538	19 744	24 966	0,13	0,14	0,14	-22,69	26,45
Georgia	1 026 863	1 248 333	1 338 295	5,04	8,79	7,72	21,57	7,21
Kazakhstan	268 207	134 637	239 986	1,32	0,95	1,39	-49,80	78,25
Kyrgyzstan	53 662	51 654	61 426	0,26	0,36	0,35	-3,74	18,92
Rep. Moldova	86 353	79 826	98 433	0,42	0,56	0,57	-7,56	23,31
Uzbekistan	84 162	70 776	101 759	0,41	0,50	0,59	-15,91	43,78
Russian Fed.	2 140 874	231 616	2 527 628	10,51	1,63	14,59	-89,18	991,30
Tajikistan	19 181	13 174	16 216	0,09	0,09	0,09	-31,32	23,09
Turkmenistan	96 160	85 801	124 106	0,47	0,60	0,72	-10,77	44,64
Ukraine	387 310	588 779	742 670	1,90	4,14	4,29	52,02	26,14
TOTAL UIS	4 660 841	2 898 995	5 819 042	22,88	20,40	33,59	-37,80	100,73
U.S.A	452 931	302 890	201 735	2,22	2,13	1,16	-33,13	-33,40
Australia	140 784	63 278	41 723	0,69	0,45	0,24	-55,05	-34,06
Korea, Rep. of	148 773	72 024	67 911	0,73	0,51	0,39	-51,59	-5,71
Japan	63 898	28 071	24 148	0,31	0,20	0,14	-56,07	-13,98
Canada	99 708	65 701	44 769	0,49	0,46	0,26	-34,11	-31,86
Mexico	27 715	12 916	8 991	0,14	0,09	0,05	-53,40	-30,39
New Zealand	21 491	9 965	6 092	0,11	0,07	0,04	-53,63	-38,87
TOTAL OTHER OECD	955 300	554 845	395 369	4,69	3,91	2,28	-41,92	-28,74
TOTAL HAYMATLOS	28 457	20 201	25 564	0,14	0,14	0,15	-29,01	26,55
TOTAL OCEANIA	191	398	209	0,00	0,00	0,00	108,38	-47,49
TOTAL FOREIGN	20 375 256	14 208 428	17 325 410	100,00	100,00	100,00	-30,27	21,94

(*): Provisional Data.