Turkey raised its tourism revenues by 11.4 percent to USD 32.3 billion in 2013 in comparison with the previous year; official data has shown marking a significant performance.
The country’s tourism sector has managed to raise its income by 5.5 percent to $7.7 billion in the last quarter of the year, Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) data announced. The TÜİK data also showed the average expenditure of foreigners was $749 per capita, while the average expenditure of Turkish nationals abroad was $1,252 per capita.
More than one third of the revenues yielded throughout the year came through foreign visitors, while around 21 percent of income was salted away by Turkish nationals living abroad.
