ISTANBUL
Foreign tourist arrivals increased by 11.75 percent in January-April from a year ago to 10.65 million, according to data from the Tourism and Culture Ministry.
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In April alone, Türkiye welcomed 3.6 million foreign holidaymakers, marking an 8.7 percent increase compared with the same month of 2023.
Germans topped the list of foreign visitors in January-April. In the first four months of 2024, 1.12 million German nationals vacationed in Türkiye, up from 966,000 in the same period of 2023.
Russians constituted the second largest group at 1.08 million, which was below the 1.15 million Russian tourists Türkiye welcomed in the January-April period of last year.
Nearly 950,000 Iranians visited Türkiye in the first four months of 2024, up from 623,000 a year earlier, while the number of visitors from Bulgaria surged 7.5 percent year-on-year to 858,000. Bulgarians mostly travel to the Turkish cities on the border for shopping.
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