Turkey’s booming tourism sector takes a downturn, affects economy as well

In the wake of a series of terrorist attacks and domestic political turmoil, Turkey’s previously booming tourism sector got gravely hit, Bernama News reported.

Terrorist attacks – 400 in just 2015 from an average of 70 annually between 2010 and 2014 – resulted in a more than 30 percent fall in the number of European tourists who used to make up over half of the visitors.

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