Deutsche Welle Turkish Service said on Tuesday, citing data from the Association of Russian Travel Agents (ATOR), that Russians topped the list of foreign tourists in Turkey, with 5.8 million tourists in the first 10 months of this year. reported that he had visited.
According to ATOR, Russians accounted for 21% of foreign tourists who visited Turkey between January and October.
The number of Russian tourists who chose Turkey as a holiday destination in the first 10 months of this year increased by 26% compared to the same period in 2022, but compared to the figures recorded in 2019 before the pandemic. It decreased by 12.8%.
So far this year, Russians have been followed by Germans and British visitors to Turkey.
ATOR statistics also show that Antalya remains the most popular destination for Russian tourists this year, hosting 3.3 million Russian tourists from January to October, compared to the same period last year. This was a significant increase of 17.5%. Despite the positive trends, the number of visitors to Antalya is still below 38.7 percent compared to pre-pandemic 2019 figures.
A total of 672,200 Russians visited Turkey in October, a decrease of 12.5% compared to October last year. The decline is believed to be related to a surge in Russian visitors to Turkey last year following Russia’s partial mobilization during the conflict with Ukraine.
Russians accounted for the largest share of the 36 million tourists who visited Turkey in the first eight months of 2023, with 4.351 million visitors, according to September data from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Ta.
Turkey was already a popular holiday destination for Russians, but it has become more popular since the EU imposed restrictions on Russians’ travel to Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ta.
Obtaining visas to EU countries has become more expensive and less easy for Russians, and Russian airlines are banned from flying over and within the EU.
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