ISTANBUL
Istanbul has attracted a total of 2.46 million foreign tourists in the first two months of 2024, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has said.
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Foreign tourist arrivals in the city, which is also Türkiye’s financial and commercial center, increased by 8.1 percent compared to the January-February period of last year.
In February alone, the mega city drew some 1.3 million international visitors, which marked a robust 19.1 percent increase from a year earlier, the ministry said in a statement.
Istanbul accounted for 56 percent of tourist arrivals in Türkiye last month, when the country hosted 2.3 million foreign holidaymakers.
Russians topped the list of foreign tourist visitors in February. According to the data from the ministry, some 139,000 Russian nationals arrived in Istanbul. Last month a total of 203,000 Russians visited Türkiye.
Germans ranked second at 95,465 people arriving in Istanbul. In February, Türkiye welcomed 188,000…