Turkey's tourism revenues reached $15.9 billion in the second quarter of 2026, down 2.6% year on year

The Turkish Statistical Institute reported on Friday, 31 July 2026, that the country's tourism revenues reached 15.865 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2026, a fall of 2.6% from the same quarter a year earlier. Revenues were 9.896 billion dollars in the first quarter of this year, and the all time high was 24.301 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2025.

Of the second quarter total, 10.9 billion dollars came from individual spending and 4.7 billion dollars from package tours. The largest share of spending went to package tours (30.2%), followed by food and beverages (21%), international transportation (12.4%) and accommodation (11.3%). Compared with the same quarter last year, accommodation spending rose 11.7% and food and beverage spending 5.2%, while package tour spending fell 5.5% and transportation spending 6.1%.

Arrivals data published the same day showed the number of foreign visitors to Turkey fell 4.02% in June 2026 from June a year earlier, a sharper decline than May's 3.58% drop. Turkey is one of the main travel destinations for Iranians and an important trading partner of Iran, and tourism is one of the country's principal sources of foreign currency and a factor in the value of the lira.