[**claire**]

The number of tourists who visited Turkey between January-July 2005 increased by 25.80 percent and reached 11.7 million, sources said on Monday.



Culture & Tourism Ministry stated that the number of tourists who visited Turkey in July 2005 increased by 22.12 percent and reached 3.164 million when compared with the same period of July 2004.

German tourists ranked the first among those who prefer Turkey. They were followed by Britain, Russia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Austria, France, Belgium, Iran, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Ukraine and Italy. **Turkish daily press**

[Hephaestion]

Turkey is the no. 1 summer holiday destination for Danes, and Turkey has knocked off Greece from the top spot.

Travel to Turkey has increased by a whopping 1/3 in 2005 while the numbers are stable for Greece.

Acc. to the statistics 48 775 Danes travelled to Turkey this summer.

May 2005 (2004)* June 2005 (2004)*

1) Turkey 32.389 (22.514) 48.755 (36.593)
2) Greece 28.381 (28.694) 40.320 (40.676)
3) Bulgaria 4.038 (3.489) 16.961 (13.320)
4) Spain 11.451 (13.337) 16.428 (19.664)
5) Italy 3.690 (3.587) 6.170 (5.973)
6) The Canaries 4.865 (5.056) 5.520 (5.912)
7) Egypt 4.311 (1.851) 5.136 (2.230)
8) Cyprus 4.439 (4.005) 3.622 (3.671)
9) Portugal/Madeira/Azores 3.282 (1.827) 2.948 (8.904)
10) Romania 773 (462) 2.396 (2.481)


No wonder it has been difficult to find availebility through danish tour operators.

[Umit]

WOW!!!!

i want to see this in new forums as well
can you post it Hephaestion? i dont want to steal your info

[Hephaestion]

Will do Umit!