UK is a very important country for Turkey’s tourism revenues now that it has persistently ranked second in the list of countries whose residents visited Turkey since 1993.

The number of visitors from UK hit all-times record of 1.9 million in 2007.

The rise in the number of UK-residents who visited Turkey in 2007 was 14% on a year earlier while the total number of visitors rose by 19%.

Although the share of UK residents in the total number of people who visited Turkey ranked second highest and increased from 7.5% in 2001 to 8.2% in 2006 and 8.4% in 2007, the ratios were comparatively higher in the period between 1994 and 2000, which ranged between 9% and 11.5%.