Coasts enjoy tourist hike during first half of year

ANKARA - Anatolia News Agency

Coasts enjoy tourist hike during first half of year

The number of tourists visiting Turkey exceeded 13 million in the first half of the year, 12.5 percent more than the same period in 2010, according to recently released data.

Germans topped the list of tourists to Turkey with a 14.7 percent share of the total sum, according to the data from the Culture and Tourism Ministry. Russians (11.4 percent), Britons (7.4 percent) and Iranians (7 percent) followed.

Russian tourists were the top visitors in June, during which there were 3.7 million total visitors, constituting an 8 percent increase over the same month a year earlier.

A total of 680,681 tourists came to Turkey in the year’s first half on day trips.