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  • UNWTO: International tourism – strongest half-year results since 2010

    AFGHANISTAN, 2017/09/09 Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the initial six months of 2017, some 36 million additional than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, increase was well above the trend of recent years, making the current January-June period the strongest half-year since 2010. Visitor numbers reported by destinations around the world reflect strong request for international travel in the initial half of 2017, according to the new UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Worldwide, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) increased by 6% compared to the same six-month period last year, well above the sustained and consistent trend of 4% or higher increase since 2010. This represents the strongest half-year in seven years.

  • Morocco Bids to Replace Turkey, Egypt as Russian Tourist Destination

    EGYPT, 2016/04/03 The North African kingdom wants to quintuple the number of Russian tourists within three years. 31 March 2016 Additional nations are seeking to exploit Egypt’s and Turkey’s tourism woes by making inroads into the Russian sun-and-sand package tour business. Morocco has joined the race, revealing plans to attract far larger numbers of Russian tourists, Moroccan Minister of Tourism Lahcen Haddad says. “Russia offers us a large opportunity. We want to increase the number of arrivals from Russia by 400 %, from 40,000 per year to 200,000 per year, over three years,” Haddad says as reported by Bloomberg.

  • Turkey’s tourism sector hit by drop in arrivals

    TURKEY, 2015/06/28 The tourism industry in Turkey could see stormy weather this summer with a sharp slowdown in arrivals from Russia and some European nations, combined with a weaker domestic market due to the sluggish economy. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism at the end of May, inbound visitor numbers fell 8.1% in April to 2.43m compared to the same month in 2014. Arrivals of foreign tourists for the initial four months of 2015 totalled 6.96m, according to the statement, down 0.5% year-on-time(y-o-y), with the Turkish Association of Travel Agents (TÜRSAB) lowering its increase estimate for the sector in tandem from 4-5% to 1.5-2% for this year. Data for before in the year had been additional robust, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), which puts arrivals in the January-March period at just over 5.3m, up 5.5% y-o-y, with earnings rising 1.3% to $4.86bn.

  • Greece and Turkey building much closer trade, economic and tourism

    GREECE, 2013/12/20 Greece and Turkey, once rivalling nations across the Aegean Sea, have presently been building much closer trade, economic and tourism, even developing new products that would be exported to 3rd nations The majority common words in Turkish-Greek affairs like “dogfight, Aegean tensions, rift, crisis, territorial waters and airspace” have lately been restored with less hostile words: trade, tourism, investment , euros and dollars. Few Turks would know that Greek foreign direct investment in Turkey, despite a most punishing economic crisis that hit the Hellenic lands, has reached $6.5 billion. Fewer may have noticed about 500 Greek companies operate on Turkish soil, mainly in banking, food and beverages, energy, construction and building materials.

  • Egypt-Turkey tension: Not effecting tourism relations

    EGYPT, 2013/11/12 Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou on Monday stressed that a number of tourism cooperation deals signed recently between Egypt and Turkey would remain intact despite ongoing political tensions between Cairo and Ankara. "Political issues will not impact [Egypt's] economic relations with Turkey," Zaazou said on the sidelines of an economic conference in Cairo on Monday.

  • Tourists still going to Turkey despite protests

    TURKEY, 2013/07/01 The recent police crackdown on demonstrations in Istanbul and other Turkish cities drew world headlines for its severity, but that has not convinced tourists from the Balkans to ditch their plans to visit Turkey this summer. The unrest started on May 31st, at the same time as police raided a turmoil encampment in Gezi Park, one of the last green spaces in downtown Istanbul, which was slated for redevelopment. Thou-sands were wounded and four were killed as unrest swept the country during June. Human rights groups denounced the response as disproportionate, a charge the Turkish government denied.

  • Turkish operators urge Italy to scrap visa

    ITALY, 2013/04/27 Turkish tourism operators who have been conference Italian entrepreneurs in the completed few days in Istanbul during at an event organized by the Italian institute for Asia and the Mediterranean (Isiamed) in cooperation with the culture and data office of the Turkish embassy in Rome have called on Italy to relieve rules to enter the country and boost the presence of Italian investors in the tourism sector.

  • Turkey's foreign tourist arrivals increased by 26.06 %

    TURKEY, 2013/04/25 Turkey's foreign tourist arrivals increased by 26.06 % year-on-year in March, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed Wednesday. But it was slightly slower than the 27.15 % increase seen in the prior month. The number of tourist arrivals totaled 1.84 million.

  • Turkish operators foresee a return of Israeli tourists,

    ISRAEL, 2013/03/29 Turkish operators foresee a return of Israeli tourists, local media reported Tuesday.  The three-year crisis between the two former allies quashed the influx of Israeli tourists, from half a million in 2008 to 80,000 in 2012. But now operators forecast 300,000 Israelis will visit Turkey this year, 500,000 in 2014 and up to a million in the following years, Milliyet daily wrote.

  • the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism,

    TURKEY, 2012/12/22 Director of the Promotions Department at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Cumhur Guven Tasbasi said on Friday that they did not expect the Turkish tourism sector to grow less than % in 2013 although the World Tourism Organization expected world tourism figures to grow around 3-4 %.
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