Turkey expects 33 mln tourists in 2013

Basaran Ulusoy, the chairman of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TURSAB), has stated that around 33 million tourists are expected to visit Turkey next year.  Ulusoy said that they expected tourism revenues to be around $25.5 billion in 2013 and the most visited places would be the southern province of Antalya followed by Istanbul, the Aegean provinces of Muğla and Aydin and central Anatolian town of Cappadocia. "Although 2012 was a difficult year for the world and our country in terms of economic issues, we haven’t experienced sharp decreases in the tourism sector," Ulusoy said.