Turkey: Number of tourists visiting museums & ruins up 10%
15 February, 15:20
(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, FEBRUARY 15 - The number of tourists, who visited museums and ruins in Turkey, increased 10% to 28.5 million in 2011 when compared to 2010, as Anatolia news agency reports. Culture & Tourism Ministry figures showed that Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul and Efes (Ephesus) ruins in western province of Izmir had been visited most last year. Turkey earned 9.7 times more income (254 million Turkish lira, around 109 million euros) from museums and ruins in the past ten years.
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