Turkey: Tourists Spend 20 Percent of their Budgets on Food

ISTANBUL, Turkey – Tourists in Turkey last year spent almost 20 percent of their budgets on food, according to a recent gastronomy tourism report by the Turkish Association of Travel Agents (TÜRSAB). The 41.4 million foreign tourists who visited Turkey in 2014 spent $6.5 billion on food, some 19 percent of their combined expenditure of $34.3 billion. TÜRSAB’s report states that 88.2 percent of all tourists traveling worldwide see cuisine as a considerable factor when determining destinations for travel. Addressing this potential, the report presents the current appetite for food in Turkey and advises how the Turkish tourism industry might effectively attract more gourmet tourists. READ MORE…