{"id":44822,"date":"2011-10-07T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T04:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=44822"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:34:17","slug":"number-of-arab-tourists-visiting-turkey-up-26-7-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/07\/number-of-arab-tourists-visiting-turkey-up-26-7-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Arab tourists visiting Turkey up 26.7 pct"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to data by Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate, 676,675 Arab tourists visited Istanbul between January and September 2011.<\/h2>\n

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The number of Arab tourists visiting Istanbul year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011 rose by 26.7 percent.<\/p>\n

According to data by Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate, 676,675 Arab tourists visited Istanbul between January and September 2011.<\/p>\n

6,079,873 foreign tourists visited the city in the first nine months of 2011. A total of 5,654,128 foreign tourists had visited Istanbul in the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Of foreigners who visited Turkey in the January-September period this year, Germans took the lead as it sent 743,094 visitors. Russia followed Germany with 369,006 of its nationals.<\/p>\n

Ahmet Emre Bilgili, head of Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate, told AA correspondent that there had been a great hike in the number of Arab tourists visiting Istanbul. Bilgili said he considered that people wanted to see Turkey, as its popularity had been increasing in the world.<\/p>\n

Mutual visa exemption between Turkey and Arab countries contributed to rise in number of Arab tourists, he said.<\/p>\n

AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to data by Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate, 676,675 Arab tourists visited Istanbul between January and September 2011. The number of Arab tourists visiting Istanbul year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011 rose by 26.7 percent. According to data by Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate, 676,675 Arab tourists visited Istanbul between January and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":44824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2938,1094],"tags":[3253],"class_list":["post-44822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-middle-east-regions","category-tourism","tag-arab-tourists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}