Turkey Tourism

ANTALYA The cover of a prominent French history magazine featuring Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Türkiye, has served as a source of inspiration for tourism professionals in the southern province of Antalya, where hoteliers have now commenced displaying the cover at their workplaces.class="cf"> The September issue of Historia Magazine published in France was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye. It featured a cover adorned with the image of Atatürk, using the Turkish flag as a backdrop, and the inscription "100 years ago, Atatürk established modern Türkiye." “As President Erdoğan's Türkiye celebrates...

David Lee / Flickr What was once a Portland novelty has grown into a brand synonymous with the Rose City. En route, VooDoo Doughnut grew a little too big for its own good and lost sight of the same eccentric sweets that made it famous. Credit to the now 20-year-old outfit where credit is due. For starters, VooDoo helped draw some foodie attention to Portland well before the celebrity chefs moved here. Also, as anybody who has been to Portland knows, the city is crawling with donut and ice cream shops these days. A big part of that is due...

There are diplomats who are perhaps not always deserving of that name. They can be cloyingly urbane, or abrasive thrusters, or pompous I-said-to-His-Apostolic-Majesty bores. Timothy Daunt was not that kind of diplomat.Certainly, he had many of the conventional virtues of his profession. Although surprisingly shy, he was meticulous, knowledgeable and clear-minded, with a rigour of intellect that allowed him to see through problems, especially those in the sphere of defence to which he dedicated much of his career.“No one had his ability to summarise an issue with one laconic phrase,” wrote Sir Paul Lever, a former chairman of the joint...

Foreign arrivals in Türkiye in the first seven months of 2023 leaped by 16.22% on an annual basis, according to official data shared on Friday showing that the country welcomed some 26.76 million foreign tourists between January and July. A total of 30.09 million people visited Türkiye in the same period, together with over 3 million of its citizens living overseas, surpassing the record of 26.5 million visits in the same period of 2019, the Culture and Tourism Ministry said. The boom in foreign visits, which continues throughout the buoyant summer season, was followed by a steady number in demand...

SKOPJE, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The number of foreign tourists in North Macedonia increased by 44 percent year-on-year in the first seven months this year, the country's State Statistical Office (SSO) said on Tuesday. According to the SSO report, in the period of January to July this year, the total number of tourists reached 610,350, increasing by 25.3 percent compared with the same period last year. In this period, the number of domestic tourists was 215,025, increasing by 1.2 percent, while that of foreign tourists was 395,325, increasing by 44 percent. In July alone, the total number of tourists was...

Dancing the ‘Schengen Shuffle’ is a new challenge for British sailors in the Mediterranean and elsewhere in Europe. Mike Morgan looks at how to keep sailing beyond 90 days Spending more than three months sailing in the Mediterranean, as a UK citizen, and remaining within the confines of the EU visa rules can be challenging. With the addition of Croatia to the Schengen area in January this year (2023), now all EU countries are included except for Ireland. Schengen is an agreement between EU countries that allows their citizens unlimited visa-free travel across all member states. Since Brexit, however, the...

More than 50 world sites hope for inclusion on the U.N.'s coveted heritage list at a meeting opening in Riyadh Sunday, while some incumbents, including Venice and Kyiv, face the risk of a downgrade. UNESCO, the United Nation's educational, scientific and cultural organization, keeps the world heritage list, which it says is a reflection of the planet's cultural and natural diversity. The agency meets once a year to update the list, the inclusion on which is seen by many countries as crucial for tourism and the ability to source funding for the preservation of sites. Conversely, countries are eager to...

ANKARATurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met in Russia's coastal city of Sochi on Monday."The most important development everyone is looking at in Türkiye-Russia relations today is the grain corridor."The message to be given at the news conference after our meeting will be a very important step toward the world, especially to the underdeveloped African countries,” Erdogan said during the bilateral meeting with Putin.Erdogan is on a one-day working visit to Sochi to discuss current regional and global issues, as well as bilateral relations with Putin.The revival of last year's historic Black Sea grain deal...

The Spector family says they spent $4,000 extra to get home from Nigeria after United didn't issue the family plane tickets. Andrew Spector/Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images Andrew Spector said his family was told they didn't have tickets for their flight home from Nigeria. Spector said United hadn't issued tickets to its partner Lufthansa for their business-class seats. The family had to spend more than $4,000 to get home two days later than scheduled, he said. Andrew Spector, Onyi Iweala, and their three children hoped a lost bag on their journey from Durham, North Carolina, to Abuja, Nigeria, would...