More than 2.5 million Iranian tourists visited Turkey in 2017
12 february 2018
Turkey has received more than 2.5 million Iranian tourists in 2017, according to the Federation of Turkish Hotel Operators and Workers.
A statement by the union said on Sunday that Turkey has become a major destination for tourists in Iran, despite some difficulties in relations between the two countries in the last two years.
The number of Iranian tourists expected to visit Turkey during the current year is 2018, the statement said.
The number of Iranians who visited Turkey in 2016 reached 665,000, and that figure rose in 2017 to reach 2 million 501 thousand.