{"id":118517,"date":"2020-05-31T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/turkey-99-drop-in-tourist-numbers-in-april\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:45:45","slug":"turkey-99-drop-in-tourist-numbers-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/turkey-99-drop-in-tourist-numbers-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: 99% Drop in Tourist Numbers in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In April, the number of foreign visitors to Turkey fell by 99% compared to the same period in 2019, due to travel restrictions adopted to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, in April, Turkey was visited by 24,238 foreign tourists, compared to 3.29 million in April 2019, according to data published by the Ministry of Tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first four months of this year, the number of foreign visitors decreased by over 50%, to 4.3 million, from 8.7 million in the same period of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first four months of this year, the most foreign tourists arrived from Bulgaria\u2014nearly 400,000\u2014and Germany\u2014over 356,000. Last year, Turkey was visited by 45 million tourists, and tourism revenues were approximately $34.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<strong>How much did Turkish tourism drop in April?<\/strong>\n<p>The number of foreign visitors to Turkey dropped by 99% in April compared to the same month in 2019.<\/p>\n<strong>Which countries provided the most tourists to Turkey in early 2020?<\/strong>\n<p>During the first four months of the year, the highest numbers of foreign visitors came from Bulgaria and Germany.<\/p>\n<strong>What was Turkey&#8217;s tourism performance in 2019?<\/strong>\n<p>In 2019, Turkey welcomed 45 million tourists, generating approximately $34.5 billion in revenue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the number of foreign visitors to Turkey fell by 99% compared to the same period in 2019, due to travel restrictions adopted to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, in April, Turkey was visited by 24,238 foreign tourists, compared to 3.29 million in April 2019, according to data published by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":68932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[117],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-118517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism","tag-turcia"],"article_style_override":"on","post-style":"style2","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118517"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=118517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}