Antalya witnesses more than 9 million foreign tourists in 2021

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Antalya, one of Turkey’s major holiday hotspots on the Mediterranean coast, witnessed more than 9 million foreign tourists in 2021.

In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global tourism and travel, only 3.5 million holidaymakers visited the province.

However, due to the Safe Tourism Certificate program and intensive vaccinations at accommodation facilities, Antalya managed to increase the number of international tourists by anamazing 164 percent in 2021 compared to the previous year.

In December 2021 alone, almost 62,000 holidaymakers arrived in Antalya, which marked a 213 percent increase from the same month of 2020.From January to December, Russians topped the list of foreign visitors.

Polish tourists ranked fourth with 417,000 people, followed by Kazakhs, Romanians, Belarussians and the Dutch.

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