6. The world’s most popular tourist center and welcomes more than 46 million tourists to Turkey in 2018, emerging sub-sectors of the tourism industry in both seated need to continue to provide large investment opportunities.
With its favorable location, current potential, mega projects and ambitious targets set for 2023, the tourism sector continues to grow at a rate that exceeds its bed capacity. Despite the remarkable increase in investments in the country in recent years, there are still great opportunities for new ventures. In addition to cultural tourism, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia has an important potential to be evaluated in terms of the boutique hotel concept that overlaps with the characteristics, history and culture of the regions and is becoming more widespread.
- United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) data, Turkey is the world’s most popular tourist centers in 2018 was 6.
- According to the Culture and Tourism Ministry data, in 2018 the number of foreign visitors coming to Turkey 46 million, while total income earned in the same year was US $ 29.5 billion tourism industry.
- Turkey has in recent years exceeded the global average growth in the tourism industry, the industry’s direct contribution to the closure of the current account deficit was 52% in 2018.
- The belief in the field of tourism, Turkey is one of the few countries where the holy places belonging to various major religions. Of a total of 316 holy places, 167 belong to Islam, 129 to Christianity and 20 to Judaism.
- The number of foreign visitors mainly taken from the Antalya is Turkey’s most preferred city. There are more than 500 4 and 5 star hotels in the center of Antalya, which was visited by 32% of foreign tourists visiting the country in 2018, and in the surrounding towns such as Kemer, Belek and Kaş.
- showing the number of hotel chains operating in Turkey is 57 and has 15 of them, while the owner of 44 domestic and foreign. While the total number of hotels in this chain in Turkey 628 57 149 601 Total number of rooms is.
- 7,200 km long coastline with Turkey, ranks 3rd in the world with 463 blue flag beaches.
- Turkey was among the top seven countries in the world in terms of geothermal tourism potential is # 1 in 1,500 kaplıcayl Europe. The total bed capacity in various spa facilities reached 100,000.
- Belek region, Turkey stands out as the most important golf center. Belek is among the world’s most popular tourism centers with 18 golf courses, over 50,000 bed capacity and 2 million tourists.
- Istanbul ranked 8th in the list of 10 most visited cities in the world prepared by Forbes Travel based on 2018 tourism data.
- While the Turkish government offers incentives such as low service fees and low tax rates, it also pursues policies aimed at removing all kinds of bureaucratic obstacles that may slow the growth of the tourism sector.
