Despite campaigns of incitement and boycotts .. Large numbers of tourism in Turkey

Mohammed Abdul Malik - Istanbul

"I spent a lot of time thinking about summer vacation options with my family, but I was really excited to visit Turkey this year, because there are endless things to enjoy, history and beauty in Istanbul, nature in Trabzon and other cities, the sea and the bustling summer life. Antalya, "Moroccan Idris al-Qurtubi responded to a question by Al-Jazeera Net about the most important motives that made him choose Istanbul Tourism this year.

Idris continues to identify the alleys of the Independence Square in Taksim, central Istanbul, and among thousands of visitors of all nationalities, he is trying to gather his two children around him to take a picture of the memory. "Little remains to be remembered."

Numbers and statistics
Statistics for the first half of this year indicate that tourists coming to Turkey increased by 13.2% compared to the same period last year. The number of visitors to the country has reached more than 18 million tourists.

According to data from the Statistics Authority and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, Russian and German tourists export the list of foreigners who arrived in the country during the mentioned period. The number of Russian visitors reached more than 2.7 million tourists, while the number of German tourists was estimated at more than 1.8 million tourists. More than 1.2 million.

The total revenue of tourists to Turkey during the first half of 2019 was more than $ 12 billion and $ 603 million, with an average expenditure of $ 469 per foreign tourist, according to official reports.

He attributed the Turkish specialists talked with Al Jazeera Net reasons for achieving this rise and growth in the tourism sector to several factors, most notably the diversity of Turkey, which has become - during recent decades - every tourist area in the country to a destination that receives visitors from more than 180 countries around the world.

Turkey plans to achieve a record in the history of Turkish tourism by ensuring that the number of tourists coming to the country, to more than 50 million tourists by the end of 2019.

Turkey is also seeking to double these figures by the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 2023, and increase from 50 million tourists and 50 billion dollars income to the tourism sector annually, to seventy million visitors and seventy billion dollars.

Overcoming circumstances
Turkey has been able to overcome the conditions of events that have passed over the past periods, despite the campaigns of distortion and provocative calls to boycott tourism by the media of some of the Gulf countries, in addition to the preoccupation of the Turkish authorities local elections and other problems, according to an official of the Federation of hoteliers in Turkey for the island Net.

On the factors of success of the tourism sector in Turkey, Turkish researcher Nizar Harbawi told Al Jazeera.net, "There are many motivations that have made Turkey a popular tourist destination among the citizens of many European and Arab countries, including the country's cultural heritage, , Enables the tourist to identify the destination and the ability to spend. "

"There is a remarkable development in Turkey's tourism vision through opening up to new markets and tourism fields of all kinds, such as beaches, medical tourism, conference tourism, religious tourism, camping, etc., as well as the abundance of tourism facilities established during the last decade.

All these factors, he said, helped Turkey to open up to new markets such as China, South Korea, Malaysia and others, which had a positive impact on tourists' movement and the great financial return on Turkey.