Turkey’s tourism revenue hits record $51.3B in first nine months

The headline record masks a modest trajectory: full-period growth of 2.4% against a much stronger third quarter suggests the first half did more of the heavy lifting, and the third-quarter figure carries well over half the nine-month total. For a market where tourism is a key source of hard-currency earnings, the durability of that late-summer momentum matters more than the record itself. Whether the third-quarter pace holds into the final stretch of the year is the open question.