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Kırklareli hosted 564,000 tourists in 2025
The number of tourists staying in Kırklareli rose to 564,000 in 2025, including 39,000 foreign visitors. In the first six months of this year, accommodation facilities in the province hosted 219,000 tourists, 10,000 of them foreign visitors.
The number of tourists staying in Kırklareli rose to 564,000 in 2025. Foreign tourists accounted for 39,000 of these visitors.
The number of tourists staying in the province was recorded at 244,000 in 2023, including 35,000 foreign visitors. This figure rose to 271,000 in 2024, including 29,000 foreign visitors, and reached 564,000 in 2025, including 39,000 foreign visitors.
In the first six months of this year, accommodation facilities in Kırklareli hosted 219,000 tourists, including 10,000 foreign visitors.
Kırklareli offers a range of tourism options
Promotional activities by the Kırklareli Governorship and the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, along with digital posts and gastronomy, culture and nature routes, are helping the province reach more visitors.
The province's proximity to Istanbul and the Dereköy Border Gate, which provides access to Bulgaria, are among its transportation advantages. The beaches of Kıyıköy and İğneada offer opportunities for coastal tourism, while the Istranca Mountains and Dupnisa Cave provide options for nature and ecotourism. Historic structures offer visitors a range of cultural tourism experiences.
Veli Şen, Kırklareli's Provincial Director of Culture and Tourism, said the province was a versatile tourism destination with its historical, natural, geological and gastronomic assets. Şen noted that Kırklareli was a strategic transit point thanks to its proximity to Istanbul and its border gates.
Şen said the province had become one of the routes preferred in recent years by visitors seeking to experience culture, nature and gastronomy together. He noted that its viticulture culture was also an important tourism asset and said Kırklareli hosted key stops on the Thrace Wine Route.
Historic and natural sites attract interest
Şen said Kırklareli was a cultural gateway to the Balkans and explained that mosques, bridges, baths and bedestens dating from the Ottoman period attracted visitors along cultural routes.
Şen said the registered examples of civil architecture, mansions and museums in the historic Yayla neighborhood reflected the province's multicultural past. The Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Complex in Lüleburgaz, the Cedid Ali Pasha Mosque in Babaeski, historic stone bridges and the Hızırbey Complex in the city center are also among the prominent cultural assets.
Dupnisa Cave is regarded as one of the key stops for nature and adventure tourism, with its stalactites and stalagmites, wildlife and underground rivers in the Istranca Mountains.
Visitors seek different experiences alongside coastal tourism
Damla Erdem, an assistant professor in the Department of Recreation Management at Kırklareli University's Faculty of Tourism, said the province stood out during the summer season, particularly with Kıyıköy and İğneada.
Erdem said the province had significant potential for nature and ecotourism as well as coastal tourism. She noted that visitors were no longer seeking only sea, sand and sun, but also different experiences in the destinations they visited, adding that Kırklareli had an advantage in this regard.
Erdem said Kırklareli offered visitors different experiences through its traces of Balkan culture and its role as a transit route.
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