993,000,000 people went abroad for their holiday in 2013. They spent 988 billion US $. 50 million tourists came to Turkey in 2014. Turkey’s share of World tourism is 2.8 %. The number of tourists has increased a great deal in the last five years. The average stay is 12 days.
10 % of tourists stay for only one day. (Mainly those coming from the Greek Islands).
In 2013, the largest number of tourists came from Germany, (5.9 million) the former USSR (5 million), the UK (2.7 million), Iran (1.3 mil), Holland (over 2 million), Bulgaria (1.2 mil) and the USA (640 thousand).
- 50% of tourists coming to Turkey are in the 25-34 age group;
- 25 % in the35-44 age group;
- 18 % in the 44-54 age group and
- 10 % in the 54-65 age group.
- 10 % of tourists coming to Turkey are retired.
- Over 7.500.000 Turkish citizens went abroad in 2009.
Record number of foreign tourists visit Turkey,
