Domestic trips with one or more than one overnights decreased by 1.5% compared to the same quarter of the previous year and declined to 32 million 537 thousand trips, the report said.
In this quarter, domestic visitors made 333 million 38 thousand overnights. While the average number of overnights was 10.2, average expenditure per trip was 650 Turkish Lira. Domestic visitors spent 21 billion 138 million 934 thousand TLIn this quarter, trip expenditures of domestic tourists increased by 18.6% compared to the same quarter of the previous year and reached to 21 billion 138 million 934 thousand TL.Domestic tourism expenditures were composed of individual expenditures and package tour expenditures. In this quarter, while 88.7% of domestic tourism expenditure was individual with 18 billion 748 million 899 thousand TL, 11.3% of it was package tour expenditures with 2 billion 390 million 35 thousand TL.The secondary purpose of the trip was "travel, leisure, holiday" with 36.4% and the third was "health" with 2.2%. Domestic visitors stayed mostly at the house of friend and relativeIn this quarter, according to the number of overnights by type of accommodation, domestic visitors stayed mostly at "house of friend and relative" with 221 million 210 thousand overnights.
While "own house" took second place with 63 million 280 thousand overnights, "hotel" took third place with 25 million 879 thousand overnights.
ILKHA