TEHRAN Number of Iranian tourists visiting Turkey in the January-September period rose by 11.89 percent compared to the figure within the corresponding period last year and reached 302,308. According to an IRNA report, in the period last year, the number of Iranian tourists visiting Turkey stood at 270,175, up 18.73 percent compared to the figure for the same period in the preceding year.
According to a statistics released by Turkish Tourism Ministry's Press Center on Tuesday, only in September 44,747 Iranian tourists traveled to Turkey. Number of the Iranians visiting Turkey in the month showed 4.42 percent increase compared to the figure for the same period last year. Most of the Iranians visited the tourist city of Istanbul. Ankara, Izmir and the port cities on the Mediterranean Sea, especially Antalya and Bursa, were among the other destinations of Iranian tourists.
Statistics show that in the first nine months of the year 8,217,526 tourists visited Turkey. The figure showed a rise of 38.57 percent compared to the first nine-month figure of last year.