How Türkiye’s accommodation statistics are made: monthly data from each facility

Every Ministry-certified accommodation facility in Türkiye enters the previous month's arrivals and overnight stays, by country, in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's online statistics system between the 1st and 10th of each month. The Ministry estimates figures for facilities that do not report, and publishes its monthly bulletin about 37 days after the month ends (Ministry metadata, last updated 23.12.2024).

The 10th of the month is close, the survey is still open, and someone at the desk has to decide whether a group that checked in at 23:40 on the 31st belongs in last month's count. That decision ends up in a national bulletin. After reading this you will know who reports, what exactly is submitted, how the Ministry fills gaps, and how to check your figures before you save them.

Who has to report accommodation data, and to which system?#

Facilities holding a Ministry certificate, either a Turizm İşletmesi Belgesi or a Basit Konaklama Turizm İşletmesi Belgesi, must enter the previous month's guest figures in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's online statistics system. The duty sits on the certified facility itself, not on the booking channel, the travel agency or the hotel software. The duty is established by Ministry regulations on accommodation statistics.

The system carries two names in Ministry documents: the help document calls it Konaklama İstatistik Sistemi, and the entry link on the directorate general's site is labelled Turizm İstatistikleri Sisteme Giriş. Both lead to the same survey. The Ministry's Konaklama Veri Girişi page (opens in a new tab) carries the current guide, the account-request instructions and a set of frequently asked questions.

The reporting population is large and mixed. The Ministry's certified accommodation statistics for August 2026 count 21,608 facilities, 928,638 rooms and 1,939,125 beds, marked provisional (Ministry of Culture and Tourism, certified accommodation statistics, August 2026, via Anadolu Agency, 24 Sep 2026). That population is not only hotels: it includes pansiyon, apart and butik facilities and Basit Konaklama certificates, so the bulletin describes certified accommodation, not hotels alone. If you are unsure which certificate a property holds, see our comparison of İşletme, Yatırım and Basit Konaklama certificates.

Two separate reporting duties exist. This article covers the monthly statistics survey; the central tourism database under Circular 2026/1 is a different flow with a different address, covered further down. The figures a facility submits are the raw material of the published series: arrivals, overnight stays, the occupancy rate and average length of stay all start as entries made at property level.

What does a facility actually submit each month?#

For each country whose guests stayed, the facility enters a number of arrivals and a number of overnight stays, and it states whether it was open or closed and, if open, how many staff it employed. The current 11-page Tesis Kullanıcı Yardım Dokümanı describes the survey as a list of countries, each with total arrivals and total overnight stays, plus a monthly open or closed status and a staff count.

The survey asks for a country per line. Use the Ministry's own field definition for that line rather than deciding for yourself between nationality and country of residence, and apply the same rule every month so the series stays comparable. Arrivals and nights are not interchangeable: average length of stay is overnight stays divided by facility arrivals, so an error in either number moves the published ratio.

Overnight stays are counted per guest per night, which is why the national totals sit far above arrivals. The Ministry's accommodation bulletin for 2025 reports 98,981,217 arrivals and 252,323,483 overnight stays in İşletme and Basit certified facilities, 2.55 nights per stay (Ministry of Culture and Tourism, accommodation bulletin 2025).

Open and closed are different statements from open with zeros. A seasonal facility that marks itself closed tells the system something different from a facility that reports no guests. The field list can change, so read the live survey each month rather than a screenshot from an older guide, and check whether an information-update step is being asked for.

When is the data due, and what happens if a facility does not report?#

The entry window is the 1st to the 10th of the following month, and a facility that stays silent is estimated from comparable facilities rather than left out of the bulletin. The window is stated in the Ministry's metadata (opens in a new tab), last updated 23.12.2024, and repeated in the current facility help document.

The estimation method is specific. The Ministry applies the occupancy rate of comparable facilities grouped by province, district and bed-size band to fill the gap left by a facility that does not report. The peer group is geographic and structural, not historical: the metadata describes the grouping by province, district and bed-size band; it does not say that a facility's own past months are used.

The practical consequence is symmetrical. A property that performs better than its district and bed-size band is undercounted in the month it misses, and one that performs worse is overcounted. The metadata does not say which facility figures in the bulletin were estimated.

Publication follows about 37 days after the reference month ends (Ministry metadata, 23.12.2024), which is why a figure you entered in the first ten days of January surfaces in the middle of February. This article gives no penalty information because the sources behind it do not. Confirm the consequences of a late or missing entry with the Ministry or your own adviser.

How do you enter the figures, step by step?#

Sign in to the Ministry statistics system from the directorate general's site, open the current survey for the month, complete any information update it asks for, then enter status, staff and the country lines before saving.

Access route: the Turizm İstatistikleri Sisteme Giriş link on yigm.ktb.gov.tr opens the login page at is.kultur.gov.tr, where users sign in with a T.C. identity number and password; the Ministry's guide also offers e-Devlet login. To open an account, the facility sends a copy of its certificate, a signature declaration or signature circular and the Kullanıcı Tanımlama Formu to the Ministry's statistics unit by email, or hands the same documents to its provincial directorate.

Facility profile: on Tesis Bilgileri ve Dönem Düzenleme the facility sets whether it operates all year or seasonally. Set this once, correctly, because it frames every later month. Monthly entry: on Güncel Anket, complete Bilgi Güncelleme first if the system asks for it (tax number, general and operations managers, the hotel software in use), then mark the facility closed, or open with its staff count, then fill the country, arrivals and overnight-stay lines.

Past surveys: Eski Anketler shows earlier months but does not allow editing, so a mistake is corrected through the current process, not by revisiting an old survey. Use the current guide: the İstanbul Provincial Directorate still publishes a nine-page version dated 2017 that lacks the e-Devlet, information-update and staff-count steps.

How do you check the figures before you submit them?#

Reconcile the survey against the night audit for the same month and check three things: entries, guest-nights and the country line. The definitions come from the Ministry's metadata (23.12.2024), and the daily records come from your own day-close process, which our night audit checklist covers in detail.

Entries, not people. Because a facility arrival is an entry to stay overnight and not a person, a guest who checks out and returns within the same month counts twice, and a family arriving together is not four arrivals. The metadata does not break arrivals down by room or by booking, so agree one internal rule with the front office and apply it every month.

Guest-nights, not room-nights. An overnight stay is a night a guest spends in the facility, so two guests for three nights contribute six. Counting rooms instead of guests understates the figure and distorts average length of stay. Country lines matter too: a guest whose country is recorded differently between two stays creates a break in a series that nobody downstream can see. Fix the rule, not the individual line.

Closed versus zero: a seasonal month marked closed and a month reported with no guests are different statements; pick the one that is true. Reconcile before you type: sum daily arrivals and daily guest-nights from the night audit for the whole month and compare them with the survey totals. A difference of one or two is usually a late check-in or an early check-out on the month boundary. Keep your own copy of what you submitted, because the system shows past surveys read-only, so the working paper that explains a number lives at the property.

Is the central tourism database the same as the monthly statistics survey?#

No. Circular 2026/1 created a separate flow into a central tourism database administered through TGA, with its own address, data sets and schedule. The instrument is the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's Circular 2026/1 of 16 April 2026, signed by Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy and listed as the Merkezi Turizm Veri Tabanının Kullanılması Hakkında Genelge. It covers accommodation facilities and the software producers serving them.

It requires the data sets published at tga.gov.tr/tesis-entegrasyon to be sent to the Ministry system through a secure web service, meaning software talks to software rather than a person typing into a form. As written, the circular sets daily transmission for automatic integration and monthly transmission, by the 15th, for manual entry, and asked facilities and their software firms to finish technical work and start the flow by 15 May 2026, sending 2025 data in one batch.

The TGA page (opens in a new tab), last updated 26 June 2026, and its integration guide of 12 June 2026 set a different schedule: data are received monthly only, each finished month within the first 10 days of the following month, plus all months from January 2025 to April 2026 in a single bulk upload. The route depends on your software: facilities with a property management system send through that system's connection, and facilities without one enter data at tesis-kunye.tga.gov.tr.

Do not merge the two schedules. The statistics survey window in the Ministry metadata (1st to 10th, last updated 23.12.2024) and the central database schedule on the TGA page (first 10 days, updated 26.06.2026) come from different documents describing different systems. Confirm the rule that applies to you before relying on either. For the full picture, see our article on Circular 2026/1 and reporting to the central tourism database.

Where do you find the official guide, and who do you ask?#

The guide, the account request route and the contact address sit on the directorate general's Konaklama Veri Girişi page, and case-specific questions go to the Ministry or your provincial directorate. The page on yigm.ktb.gov.tr carries the 11-page Tesis Kullanıcı Yardım Dokümanı, the Kullanıcı Adı ve Şifre Almak İstiyorum instructions and a set of frequently asked questions. Account documents go to the Ministry's statistics unit by email, or to the provincial directorate in person.

Check the date on any guide before you follow it. Older versions circulate, including a nine-page 2017 document still hosted by one provincial directorate, and they describe a system that has since gained steps. This article describes the duties in general terms from published Ministry documents. Confirm your own case, the current deadlines and the consequences of a late entry with the Ministry or a legal adviser.

What to do next#

Pull last month's night audit, reconcile daily arrivals and guest-nights against the survey, and submit before the 10th. Then check the TGA page whether your property also falls under the central database flow, which runs on its own schedule and its own address. The two duties share a subject, not a system, and treating them as one is the mistake that costs a month.