Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, said on the subject…
The number of tourists who came to Antalya exceeded 15 million. SIA refers to Turkish websites about this.
Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, in the city where he went for the Antalya Culture Road Festival, said that according to 9-month data, the number of 42 billion dollars in tourism in Turkey has been reached, progress has been made, and the target is 55.6 billion dollars by the end of the year: “Tourists coming to Antalya the number exceeded 15 million from the beginning of 2023 to November 4. Both revenue and tourist numbers are up from 2019, when tourism peaked before the pandemic. This is very gratifying. In 2019, we established the Turkey Tourism Promotion and Development Agency to further strengthen the sector. The main task of the agency is to solve problems related to tourism together with the sector and the state. We are doing it successfully. We are currently running intensive and effective promotion programs in more than 200 countries. In a very short time, we have become the most intensive and effective tourism promoting country in the world. We can already see the result of this in the number of tourists and incomes.
