Türkiye’s Mediterranean gem of Antalya, which hosted approximately 141,000 people in January 2019, was on the holiday route of 219,647 foreign tourists in the same period this year.
The city, which continued to host tourists with the Safe Tourism Certificate program during the global pandemic that affected the world and closed last year with 13.5 million foreign visitors, started 2023 with high expectations.
According to the data of the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, some 91,762 foreign tourists arrived by air in the city on Jan. 1-31, 2018, and it hosted 140,856 foreigners in the same period in 2019 when records were broken in tourism.
In 2020, the city, where 185,485 foreign guests came in January when the pandemic effects had not yet been felt. It hosted 49,841 foreign tourists in 2021 and 138,604 foreign tourists last year in the shadow of the pandemic.
In the city, where a hopeful atmosphere for the 2023 season is blowing, the number of foreign tourists arriving by air in January reached 219,647, an increase of 58% compared to the previous year.
In the ranking of the countries sending the most tourists, Russia took first place in every period. Some 71,752 guests came from Russia in January. Germany, with 35,214 tourists, the U.K. with 13,512 tourists, Poland with 8,086 tourists and Israel with 7,570 tourists followed by Russia.
Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Jordan and Belgium took place in the top 10. ♦
Courtesy: Daily Sabah
