How much was Turkey's tourism impacted by COVID-19 Jan to Jun 2020?
Turkey is the member country of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that attracts the highest number of international arrivals every year. Last year it welcomed a record 51.75 million international arrivals.
Like all countries, its travel and tourism sector has been hard hit by lockdowns and restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the first half of 2020, Turkey suffered a 75% drop in international arrivals, according to Salaam Gateway calculation of official data.
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