The number of foreign visitors arriving in Türkiye more than doubled in the first eight months of the year, as a buoyant August saw the critical tourism industry continuing its strong recovery from the slump due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Rebound this year has been driven by a major leap in demand from Europe, spearheaded by Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as Russia.
Arrivals in August alone jumped 58.3% from a year earlier to 6.3 million, official data showed Friday. The figure compared with 3.98 million foreign visitors in August 2021 and 1.81 million in the same month of 2020.
Around 29.3 million tourists arrived in Türkiye from January through August, marking a 108.5% climb from a year ago, on pace to roughly match the pre-pandemic levels of 2019, according to Culture and Tourism Ministry data.
The first eight-month figure stood at 14.1 million in 2021, 7.2 million in 2020, and 31 million in 2019.
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