Ankara : Turkish officials and industry insiders are optimistic about the country’s tourism growth in 2023, as they believe a robust rebound in tourism this year and a weak currency will add momentum to the sector’s growth.
In an address to Parliament earlier this month, Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said the country aims to attract 60 million foreign visitors next year and expects the sector to bring in $56 billion in revenue, reports Xinhua news agency.
“We are revising our year-end target for 2022 to 51.5 million visitors and $46 billion in revenue,” he said.
The figures were slightly up from an official target set in October, when officials estimate that the country would have welcomed 50 million foreign tourists and generated 44 billion dollars in tourism revenue by the year-end.
According to official data released in late October, the number of foreign visitors climbed 88.1 per cent year-on-year to reach 39.61 million in the first 10 months of this year, almost matching the pre-pandemic level of 2019, when 45 million foreign tourists travelled to Turkey.
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