Turkey most attractive for middle-income visitors
Posted by meb at September 2nd, 2008
A clear majority of visitors coming to Turkey hail from the middle-income bracket, figures provided by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) show.
According to tourism statistics for the second quarter of 2008, 66.9 percent of all visitors belonged to the middle-income bracket in their respective countries, whereas only 18.8 percent of them enjoyed a higher-than-average standard of living. Only 2.2 percent of the visitors could be considered wealthy.
According to the TurkStat figures, 6.6 million visitors crossed Turkey’s borders in the second quarter. Of these, 5.9 million were foreign nationals and some 724,000 were Turkish citizens living abroad. A total of 53.4 percent of all visitors were male and 52.5 percent had a university diploma or higher degree.
Of all visitors that spent their vacation in Turkey during the second quarter, 24.1 percent were employed in professional occupations. A combined 16.3 percent comprised corporate owners, lawyers and top-level managers.
In the second quarter, visitors spent $4.8 billion in total, around $3.6 billion of which was from individual spending. Of these individual expenditures, $1.02 million were for food, $700 million for accommodation, $100.5 million for health care, $406 million for transportation, $42.2 million for sports, education and cultural activities and $61.2 million for in-city tour organizations. The remaining $1.270 million was spent for miscellaneous items.
source: Today’s Zaman
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