Despite a gloomy year amid coronavirus-related mobility restrictions across the world, Turkiye generated $24.5 billion in tourism revenue last year, according to official figures released on Monday.
Though doubling from 2020, the figure for last year fell short of the all-time high of $34.5 billion set in 2019, prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data showed.
Turkiye welcomed 29.4 million visitors last year, an increase of 85.5% compared to 2020, but down from 51.9 million in 2019.
While 81.5% of visitors were foreign nationals with nearly 24 million people, 18.5% were Turkish nationals living abroad, with 5.4 million.