Household Domestic Tourism, Quarter III: July-September, 2019 in Turkey

In the third quarter; which is July, August and September months of 2019, 24 million 264 thousand residents had domestic trips. Domestic trips with one or more than one overnights, decreased by 1.8% compared to the same quarter of the previous year and declined to 31 million 939 thousand trips. In this quarter, domestic visitors made 309 million 342 thousand overnights. Average number of overnights was 9.7.
Number of domestic visitors, trips and overnights, Quarter III: July-September, 2019
Number of overnights, Quarter III, 2019   Average number of overnights, Quarter III, 2019
Domestic visitors spent 23 billion 344 million 390 thousand TLIn this quarter, trip expenditures of domestic tourists increased by 10.4% compared to same quarter of previous year and reached to 23 billion 344 million 390 thousand TL. In this quarter, while 89.6% of domestic tourism expenditure was individual with 20 billion 911 million 667 thousand TL, 10.4% of it was package tour expenditures with 2 billion 432 million 723 thousand TL. Average expenditure per trip was 731 TL.

Travel expenditures of visitors, Quarter III: July-September, 2019

Total trip expenditures, Quarter III, 2019   Average expenditures per trip, Quarter III, 2019

In this quarter, according to rate of change of trip expenditures compared to same quarter of the previous year, the highest increases were health expenditures with 36.1%, other expenditures (sports, entertainment, education, jewelry, gold, silver, carpet, rug etc.) with 21.1% and accommodation expenditures with 14.3% respectively.

Rate of change of expenditure types over the same quarter of the previous year (%), Quarter III, 2019

Primary purpose of trip was “visiting relatives” with 60.5%

The secondary purpose of trip was “travel, leisure, holiday” with 33.8% and the third was “health” with 3%.

Distribution of trips according to the purpose of trip, Quarter III, 2019

Domestic visitors stayed mostly at house of friend and relative

In this quarter, according to number of overnights by type of accommodation, domestic visitors stayed mostly at “house of friend and relative” with 193 million 611 thousand overnights. While “own house” took second place with 71 million 611 thousand overnights, “hotel” took third place with 22 million 391 thousand overnights.

Distribution of overnights according to the type of accommodation, Quarter III, 2019

The next release on this subject will be on April 22, 2020.

Source: TurkStat
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