"Furthermore, historical and modern museums, churches, and mosques stand as the most precious wealth of the city," he said.In his view, the diversified tourism products, such as the growing gastronomy tourism sector and health tourism, are also contributing to Istanbul's fame in a significant way.The two English premier league rivals, Liverpool and Chelsea, will also meet in Istanbul on August 14 for the UEFA Super Cup final match, alluring around 40,000 fans from across the world for the single day.
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"Istanbul is slowly pulling itself out from the hegemony of the Middle Eastern countries and facing towards Europe and the Far East," Aksu continued.The number of tourists coming from almost all European countries, especially Spain, France, Italy, Serbia and the Netherlands, have seen a significant increase during the first five months.Meanwhile, The number of Chinese tourists increased by 5.6 percent to 148,658 from 140,835, while the number of tourists from South Korea and India grew by 39.2 percent and 55.6 percent respectively.Last year, Istanbul hosted a total of 13.4 million foreign visitors from 199 countries.Firuz Baglikaya, head of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies, said the figure is expected to hit 15 million at the end of this year. "I think now it is OK. Istanbul is an increasingly popular tourist destination; whereas just 2.4 million foreigners visited the city in 2000, it welcomed 12.56 million foreign tourists in 2015, making it the world's fifth most-visited city. This marked a slight decline compared to April, when foreign In the first five months of the year, Turkey welcomed 12.8 million tourists, up from 11.5 million a year earlier.“Istanbul is on course to meet its target of hosting 15 million tourists set for 2019,” said a statement from the Istanbul Governor’s Office.“We offer world-class services with our hotels, bed capacity, and accommodation facilities.
And they spent over ₹1,800 billion (₹188,364 crore) between January and November. Tourists visit the Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, July 6, 2019. Turkey's biggest city Istanbul allured a record number of tourists during the first five months of this year, thanks to an environment of peace, affordable prices and diversified tourism products. "Istanbul is one of the most important centers in the world in urban tourism domain," Baglikaya told Xinhua. Foreign arrivals exhibited a sharp 11 percent increase on an annual basis in January-May, showed data from the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism. 10 million tourists visit Istanbul each year. The Mediterranean resort city of Antalya followed it with 14.65 million foreign visitors last year. Turkey’s Intercity Istanbul Park will host the first Grand Prix since 2011 from Nov. 13 - Nov. 15, with 100,00 spectators, and the daily tickets costing 30 Turkish Liras ($4) will be on sale next week, said the official responsible for the organization. We will make that happen,” Yerlikaya added.The report from the local tourism authority also showed 5.42 million tourists vising Istanbul was the highest figure over the past five years for the January-May period.In January-May of 2015, 4.6 million foreign tourists arrived while the corresponding figures for 2016 and 2017 were 3.7 million and 3.6 million, respectively.Some 5.4 million tourists arrived in the city by air transport while only a tiny fraction of visitors (around 16,000) travelled to Istanbul by cruises.Some 30 percent of foreign tourists arrived at Istanbul Airport which began operations in early April.Germans topped the foreign visitors’ list, followed by Iranians and Russian nationals.In the first five months of 2019, a total of 394,925 German tourists visited the city, a 4.8 percent rise from a year ago. © 2020 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. UK was in the third position with 5,86,000 visitors, just ahead of China with 5,01,000.