Tourism income decreased 13.8 percent, declining to $7.7 billion in the second quarter of the year, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on Friday. While 86.7 percent of this income was obtained from foreign visitors, 13.3 percent was obtained from Turkish citizens residing abroad. Visitors organizing travel individually spent more than those who preferred to join a package tour. Iindividual expenditures constituted $5.9 billion of the total tourism income, $1.8 billion of the income was obtained from package tour expenditures. According to data from the Tourism Ministry, the highest number of tourists came from Germany in the first half of the year, with around 2 million, followed by Russia, with 1.45 million, and Britain, with around 950,000.The number of foreign tourists from France decreased by 22.3 percent, with the number from Italy decreasing by 19.5 percent, in the first half of the year, compared to the previous year.