Turkey's Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay said Turkey would carry out a promotion campaign worth 50 million USD, and aimed to host 30 million tourists in 2010 with a 10 percent rise over 2009.
"My ministry has allocated 8 million USD for promotion campaign in Russia this year, but we will carry out over 50-million-USD campaign in Russia as the public and private sector," Günay told a press conference in Moscow.
Günay is actually visiting the Russian capital to participate in the International Exhibition Travel & Tourism.
The minister said Turkey was expecting 3 million tourists from Russia in 2010.
Over 27 million tourists visited Turkey in 2009.
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