Turkey Tops European Tourism Growth…Again
Photo Credit: Thomas Cook's Smartline Flamingo, in Oludeniz, Turkey. The country's tourism industry continues to bounceback. Thomas Cook
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It was only a couple of years ago that the Turkish tourism industry was on its knees. How quickly things can change.
Turkey’s remarkable tourism turnaround continued into 2018 as it once again came out on top in Europe for international arrivals growth.
Preliminary results for last year show Turkey up 22.3 percent on the prior year, according to the European Travel Commission, which collated the data.
"Assuming year-to-date growth holds true for 2018 as a whole, arrivals to Turkey in 2018 will exceed 47 million – this would mark a new record for the destination in tourist arrivals terms, having never before exceeded 40 million," the ETC said in its report.
What's interesting is that even though Turkey is well on the path to recovery following th
