Turkey Tourism

ANTALYA A record 15.37 million tourists visited Antalya, Türkiye’s major holiday hotspot, in the January-November period, official data have shown.class="cf"> In the whole of 2019, the Mediterranean province hosted 15.28 million visitors, which marked an all-time high back then. Some 14.5 million foreign tourists from nearly 200 countries visited the city in the first 11 months of the year, while 870,000 Turks residing abroad arrived in Antalya. Tourist arrivals in the January-November period increased by 16.3 percent from the same period of 2022, according to the numbers provided by the provincial directorate of culture and tourism. In November alone, tourist...

BURSA The season's inaugural snowfall has graced Uludağ and Kartalkaya, the country’s prominent winter tourism destinations, sector representatives have reported the commencement of the influx of initial visitors to the ski resorts.class="cf"> In Uludağ in the northwestern province of Bursa, rain on Nov. 16 transitioned into snowfall during the early morning hours, as the temperature plummeted to 1 degree Celsius. While precipitation persisted in the form of mixed rain and snow, meteorological authorities indicated that the season's first substantial snowfall is anticipated on Nov. 19. They also forecasted that the temperature will drop to as low as minus 5 degrees....

As winter descends upon Türkiye's Kars-Ardahan border, Çıldır Lake, spreading across 123 square kilometers (76.43 square miles), reveals its enchanting icy facade, beckoning both national and international tourists. Recently, ice layers have begun forming on the surface of Çıldır Lake, the Eastern Anatolia Region's second-largest lake, following Lake Van. The lake's frozen expanse has commenced drawing visitors, particularly at Taşbaşı village in Arpaçay district, Kars. Set against a backdrop of snowy-white surroundings, horse-drawn sleigh rides await eager citizens along the lake's shore. These sleighs, primed and prepared in the Arpaçay district, anticipate the lake's ice to thicken adequately before venturing...

Alternate National Economy and Finance Minister Nikos Papathanassis on Friday signed a decision for the inclusion of the "Digital transformation of the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO)" in the projects financed by the Recovery and Resilience Fund, ANA reports.The project has a total budget of 10,185,732 euros and concerns the development of an innovative tourist information system via the creation of the digital platform "My Digital Tourism".Specifically, the project foresees the creation of:- A digital tourism map, a database that will include the entire tourism product of Greece by mapping all the special characteristics of existing and potential tourism destinations...

ANTALYA Long waiting time in traffic has been one of the most common complaints of visitors coming to the tourism hotspot of Antalya, which hosts millions of domestic and foreign holidaymakers annually, this tourism season.class="cf"> Sixteen million tourists are expected to visit Antalya this year, breaking the all-time tourism record of 2019. Holidaymakers from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, England and Poland are in the majority this season, which started late due to the earthquakes in early February and is expected to be extended due to the weather temperatures being above seasonal norms. After landing at Antalya Airport, tourists are taken to...

Fifteen declarations, agreements and memoranda of cooperation, concerning a wide range of sectors, from tourism, energy and trade to research, education and transport, were signed at the 5th Greece-Turkey High Level Cooperation Council. One of the agreements concerned the creation of a new power interconnector between Nea Santa in Rodopi and Babaeski in Turkey and to increase the volume of the two-way energy flow by 600 MW. Others cover the exchange of know-how in the field of agricultural crops, cooperation in dealing with floods or drought, cooperation in forest fire prevention and response, combating illegal fishing and research for rural...

Greece and Turkey agreed to strengthen ties through cooperation in tourism with the aim of increasing tourist flows between the two countries, announced the Greek Tourism Ministry this week. More specifically, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni and her Turkish counterpart Mehmet Nuri Ersoy signed a joint declaration to further promote cooperation between the two countries in tourism on the sidelines of the 5th meeting of the Turkey-Greece High-Level Cooperation Council. Ersoy was in Athens on Thursday accompanying Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a historic visit to Greece. The agreement follows the announcement on Thursday that Greece would be issuing...

NEVŞEHİR Cappadocia, the popular destination in the central Anatolian province of Nevşehir, broke a new visitor record.class="cf"> The region’s Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Hacıbektaş Archaeology and Ethnography Museums, Karanlık, El Nazar, Gülşehir, Derinkuyu, Kaymaklı, Özkonak, Tatlarin and Mazı underground cities, Göreme Open Air Museum, Zelve ancient site, Gülşehir Open Palace Ruins, Hacıbektaş Veli Museum and Hacıbektaş Atatürk House were visited by 4,256,129 local and foreign tourists in the first 10 months of the year. Nevşehir Governor Ali Fidan said, "The Cappadocia region is one of the most important tourism centers in Türkiye and the world with its unique natural beauties and...

Russians have taken the lead among international tourists visiting Türkiye, with 5.8 million visitors in the first ten months of the current year. Data provided by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) show that Russians made up 21 percent of foreign tourists in Türkiye from January to October. Although there was a 26 percent increase in Russian tourists to Türkiye compared to the same period in 2022, the numbers remained 12.8 percent lower than the pre-pandemic levels recorded in 2019, VisaGuide.World reports. After the Russians, German and British tourists ranked second and third in visits to Türkiye this year. According...