ANTALYA
Foreign tourist arrivals increased by 11.6 percent in the January-October period from a year ago to 44.2 million, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has said.
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Including Turkish nationals residing abroad, the number of total visitors reached 50.2 million in the first 10 months of 2023.
Russians constituted the largest group of foreign holidaymakers. From January to October, 5.8 million Russians visited Türkiye, accounting for 13.2 percent of all foreign tourist arrivals. In the same period of 2022, 4.6 million Russians vacationed in the country.
Germans ranked second at 5.7 million. German tourist arrivals in Türkiye increased by 8 percent from January to October last year.
Some 3.6 million Britons visited the country in the first 10 months, up from 3.2 million a year ago.
Türkiye also saw nearly 2.1 million Iranian tourists, pointing to a 3 percent increase from the same period of 2022.
Data from the ministry showed that 2.4 million…