Household Domestic Tourism, Quarter IV: October-December and Annual, 2019 in Turkey
In the fourth quarter; which is October, November and December months of 2019, 10 million 501 thousand residents had domestic trips. Domestic trips with one or more than one overnights, increased by 9.9% compared to the same quarter of the previous year and reached to 12 million 846 thousand trips. In this quarter, domestic visitors made 90 million 840 thousand overnights. Average number of overnights was 7.1.
Annually, domestic trips decreased by 0.4% compared to the previous year and declined to 78 million 202 thousand. In this year, total number of overnights increased by 0.5% compared to the previous year and reached to 637 million 70 thousand. Average number of overnights was 8.1 in 2019.
Number of domestic visitors, trips and overnights, Quarter IV: October-December and Annual, 2019
Number of overnights, Quarter IV, 2019 Average number of overnights, Quarter IV, 2019
Domestic visitors spent 7 billion 837 million 481 thousand TL
In this quarter, trip expenditures of domestic tourists increased by 43.7% compared to same quarter of previous year and reached to 7 billion 837 million 481 thousand TL. Domestic tourism expenditures were composed of individual expenditures and package tour expenditures. In this quarter, while 94.0% of domestic tourism expenditure was individual with 7 billion 368 million 927 thousand TL, 6.0% of it was package tour expenditures with 468 million 553 thousand TL. Average expenditure per trip was 610 TL.
In this year, trip expenditures of domestic tourists increased by 21.5% compared to the previous year and reached to 48 billion 910 million 856 thousand TL. While 91.9% of domestic tourism expenditure was individual with 44 billion 945 million 860 thousand TL, 8.1% of it was package tour expenditures with 3 billion 964 million 996 thousand TL. Average expenditure per trip was 625 TL in 2019.
Travel expenditures of visitors, Quarter IV: October-December and Annual, 2019
Total trip expenditures, Quarter IV, 2019 Average expenditures per trip, Quarter IV, 2019
In this quarter, according to rate of change of trip expenditures compared to same quarter of the previous year, the highest increases were in health expenditures with 131.8%, package tour expenditures with 104.5% and other expenditures (sports, entertainment, education, jewellery, gold, silver, carpet, rug etc.) with 53.2% respectively.
In this year, the highest annual increases were in health expenditures with 62.0%, food and beverage with 27.4% and trip expenditures made before trip (clothing, medicine, bags, camera, film etc.) with 26.2% respectively.
Rate of change of expenditure types over the same period of the previous year (%), Annual and Quarter IV, 2019
Primary purpose of trip was “visiting relatives” with 66.3%
The secondary purpose of trip was “travel, leisure, vacation” with 17.8% and the third was “health” with 8.3%.
Annually, while “visiting relatives” was the primary purpose of trip with 63.7%, secondary purpose of trip was “travel, leisure, vacation” with 26.5% and the third was “health” with 4.6%.
Distribution of trips according to the purpose of trip (%), Annual and Quarter IV, 2019
Domestic visitors stayed mostly at house of friend or relative
In this quarter, according to number of overnights by type of accommodation, domestic visitors stayed mostly at “house of friend or relative” with 62 million 494 thousand overnights. While “own house” took second place with 17 million 790 thousand overnights, “hotel” took third place with 4 million 969 thousand overnights.
Annually, domestic visitors stayed mostly at “house of friend or relative” with 435 million 347 thousand overnights. “Own house” took second place with 115 million 366 thousand overnights and “hotel” took third place with 42 million 713 thousand overnights.
Distribution of overnights according to the type of accommodation (%), Annual and Quarter IV, 2019
The next release on this subject will be on July 22, 2020.
Source: TurkStat
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