Domestic health travel spending tops 10 billion lira for first time

Domestic health travel spending reached 10.6 billion lira in the first quarter, a record, according to TÜİK data. Including meeting and fair travel, total spending hit 15.2 billion lira.

Scraper SystemJuly 25, 2026, 10:45 PM

Domestic health travel spending tops 10 billion lira for first time

Health-related travel spending exceeded the 10 billion lira mark for the first time in the first quarter, according to household domestic tourism data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). Citizens spent a total of 10,626,291,000 lira on trips made for health reasons between January and March.

Health travel spending, which stood at 9,876,993,000 lira in the same period last year, hit a new peak with a 7.6% rise. Under health tourism, 576,000 trips were taken in the first quarter of last year, with 6,135,000 overnight stays recorded and an average of 10.6 nights per trip.

Sharp rise in meeting and fair travel

The number of trips for meetings, conferences, courses and seminars reached 206,000 in the same period. Overnight stays from these trips totaled 494,000, averaging 2.4 nights. Spending on such trips climbed to 2,406,257,000 lira, up from 902,244,000 lira in the same quarter of the previous year.

In the trade relations and fair category, 164,000 trips were recorded. Spending in this area reached 2,220,221,000 lira in the first quarter.

Three categories total 15.2 billion lira

Combined spending on health, meeting and fair travel hit 15,252,760,000 lira in the first quarter. Domestic tourists spent a total of 102,312,286,000 lira on all trips within the country in the same period.