Domestic health-related travel spending tops 10.6 bln liras
Turks make some 576,000 trips for health purposes in the first quarter 2026, spending a total of 10.63 billion Turkish liras, accorfing to official data.
Domestic tourists in Türkiye spent 10.63 billion Turkish Liras ($225 million) on health-related travel in the first quarter, official data has shown.
According to the Turkish Statistical Institute’s (TÜİK), household domestic tourism statistics, domestic travelers spent a total of 102.3 billion liras on trips within the country during the January-March period.
Visiting relatives, leisure and vacation trips accounted for the bulk of expenditures, while health remained one of the key reasons for travel.
