Data released from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has shown that Turkey’s income from tourism reached a new all-time high during the first nine months of 2025 – exceeding $50 billion USD in total from January to September.
A 5.7% increase year-over-year
Speaking at an event in Istanbul, Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, said that: “Tourism revenues for the first nine months last year were $47.3 billion USD. This year, we’ve reached $50 billion USD, a record-breaking income for Turkey.”
According to the data, this was an increase of 5.7% when compared to 2024. Ersoy continued to say: “As a result of positive developments, we can say that we will achieve our year-end target of $64 billion USD.”
Foreign tourists and Turkish Citizens visiting home
Data from the third quarter of 2025 alone, shows that revenue increased by 3.9% to reach $24.26 billion USD. Of that amount, $24.05 billion USD of revenue came from foreign tourists visiting Turkey, while $211 million USD came from Turkish citizens who are living abroad and came back to visit relatives.
Looking at the data further, individual spending accounted for $16 billion USD of total tourism income during the third quarter, while packaged tours were responsible for $8.1 billion USD of income. Ersoy noted that preliminary data for October also looks positive, saying: “Based on the provisional numbers, we can already see that October performed quite well.”
Separate data released from the Culture and Tourism Ministry showed that the total number of tourists arriving to Turkey increased by 1.65% during the first nine months of the year to reach just under 50 million people – including 41.57 million foreigners and 8.4 million Turks living abroad.
Turkey targeting 65 million visitors for 2025
At the beginning of the year, the Turkish government released a number of targets, including attracting a total of 65 million visitors for the entire year. Last year, that number stood at 62.3 million people – making Turkey the fourth-most visited country in the world. This brought in an income amounting to $61.1 billion USD.
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