Tourist surge boosts Turkey's economy

ANKARA - Turkey's tourism sector is recovering with growing visits by foreigners in the country, and the increasing revenues bring good news for the struggling economy.

The number of tourists visiting Turkey in the first half of 2018 increased 30 percent year on year, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Ersoy said.

"Some 16 million foreigners visited our country in the first six months of this year," Ersoy said, quoted by the State-run Anadolu new agency, during his visit recently to the southern holiday resort city of Antalya.