Turkish July foreign visitor arrivals climb 53 pct year-on-year to 6.67 mln in July

The number of foreign visitors arriving in Turkey leapt 53 percent from a year earlier to 6.67 million in July, data showed on Monday, sustaining a powerful recovery from the sectoral slump triggered in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The arrivals compared with 4.36 million foreign visitors in July 2021 and 932,927 in July 2020.

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In the first seven months of the year, the number of foreign visitors climbed 128 percent to 23.03 million, on pace to roughly match the pre-pandemic levels of 2019.

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