Turkey to launch ‘healthy tourism certification’ as COVID-19 slashes foreign arrivals by 67% in March
Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry will launch a “healthy tourism" certification programme throughout the 2020 summer season, state news agency Anadolu Agency reported on Monday (May 11).
The announcement of the programme comes after the country was hit by a 67.83% plunge in foreign arrivals, to 718,097 in March compared to 2,232,358 in the same month in 2019, according to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Foreign arrivals for the first quarter were down by 22.11% compared to the same three months last year, to reach 4.24 million versus 5.44 million. Tourism income dropped 11.4% year-on-year, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute.
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