Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek shared information on Turkey’s tourism statistics for the year 2023 on his social media account.
Şimşek pointed out the positive trend in the data, stating, “In 2023, we achieved the best performance in tourism of all time.”
Highlighting that the number of people visiting Turkey reached 57.1 million with an annual increase of 11.1%, exceeding the year-end target of 56.7 million, Şimşek noted:
“The tourism revenue reached 54.3 billion dollars. According to the Medium-Term Program, with the continuation of strong performance in tourism this year, we expect the number of visitors to reach 59.4 million and tourism revenue to increase to 59.6 billion dollars. Our target for the year 2028 is to reach 100 billion dollars in tourism revenue with 82.3 million visitors.”
source: aa.com.tr / prepared by Melisa Beğiç