ISTANBUL-(Dow Jones)- The number of tourists visiting Turkey rose 31% on the year in April to 2.29 million, the Culture and Tourism Ministry said Wednesday.
Most were from Germany, but many also came from Russia, the U.K. and France.
In the first four months of the year, tourist numbers rose 21% from the comparable period of 2010, to 5.96 million.
Tourism is a major industry in Turkey. In 2010 as a whole, some 28.632 million tourists visited Turkey, up 5.7% from a year earlier.
-By Yeliz Candemir, Dow Jones Newswires; +905354320591; yeliz.candemir@ dowjones.com
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