Tourism income in Türkiye rose 5.6% year on year to $9.45 billion in the first quarter of 2025, Anadolu Agency reported on 30 April, citing TurkStat. Average spending per visitor increased 4.8% to $1,022, while spending per night was $99.
Spending categories and reasons for travel
- Food and beverages: 24.7% of income.
- International transportation: 15.9%.
- Package tours: 13.1%.
Visitors and transfer passengers
The original TurkStat bulletin dated 30 April, preserved by the tourism investors’ association, gives total income of $9.451244 billion. Of that, $9.323872 billion came from visitors and $127.373 million from transfer passengers. Departing visitors totalled 9,121,152, up 1.2%; 2,219,038 were Turkish citizens resident abroad.
The bulletin reports individual visitor expenditure of $8.104875 billion and package-tour expenditure of $1.218997 billion. These components concern visitors’ income rather than adding an additional package-tour total to all tourism receipts.
The scale of the leading spending categories
Adding the agency’s three reported income shares gives 53.7%. The remaining 46.3% therefore covers other expenditure categories.
