Türkiye greeted some 56.7 million visitors last year, with an annual surge of 10.33%, a senior official said Wednesday highlighting that the country's tourism revenue posted a substantial uptick reaching a record $54.3 billion (TL 1.64 trillion).
"The year 2023 was the year in which we broke records in data," Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said during a presentation on the figures in Istanbul's Atatürk Culture Center (AKM).
"The number of visitors reached 56.7 million in 2023," he said, adding that tourists from Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom spearheaded the arrivals drive last year.
Some 6.3 million visitors from Russia visited Türkiye last year, Ersoy said, followed by 6.2 million German tourists and 3.8 million Britons.
"England was among our prioritized target destinations during the pandemic. We improved regarding the U.K. market, where we had some 2.5 million before the pandemic, to 3.8 million afterward," he said.
The number of foreign tourists arriving at Türkiye between January and December last year meanwhile surged by 10.4% to 49.2 million, the Culture and Tourism Ministry data showed.
The figure exceeded its pre-pandemic period level of 45 million in 2019, the ministry data showed.
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