{"id":222569,"date":"2025-06-28T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222569\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:50:09","slug":"turkeys-tourism-revenue-hits-9-4-billion-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222569\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s tourism revenue hits $9.4 billion in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02a20a808d427f884dfa0df9aae23733_shutterstock_2233708229-1.jpg?v=1750022832\" alt=\"Turkey\u2019s tourism revenue hits $9.4 billion in Q1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02a20a808d427f884dfa0df9aae23733_shutterstock_2233708229-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tourism revenues for 2024 amounted to 21.7 billion euros, an increase of 5.4%, with visitors drawn to attractions such as this beach\u00a0on Karpathos. Further growth is expected this year, barring any major geopolitical developments that would impact\u00a0travel to Greece. The direct contribution of tourism to the economy came to \u20ac30.2 billion in 2024, amounting to 13% of GDP, while the indirect total contribution to the economy was significantly higher. About 84.4% of tourism receipts come from inbound tourism, which covers 71.5% of the deficit in the balance of goods, according to\u00a0Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) president\u00a0Yiannis Paraschis.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey generated $9.4 billion from international tourism between January and March, marking a 6% increase compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2025 tourism season in full swing, travelers from around the world are flocking to the country\u2019s rich tapestry of ancient cities, sacred monuments, and UNESCO-listed treasures \u2013 fueling a surge in cultural tourism that experts say could drive record-breaking visitor numbers this summer. (Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourism revenues for 2024 amounted to 21.7 billion euros, an increase of 5.4%, with visitors drawn to attractions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,5006,461,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-222569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-tourism","11":"tag-turkey","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114763675989541942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}