Türkiye’s Aegean resort town Kuşadası, one of the country’s leading cruise tourism hubs, awaits the arrival of approximately 1 million tourists by sea this year following what a local port operator official said was “quite a successful” season for the district.
Kuşadası Ege Port General Manager Aziz Güngör, speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA) Monday, said Kuşadası hosted the highest number of ships and passengers in the history of the district in 2023.
Güngör noted that the previous year saw 531 cruise ship voyages, bringing in 785,000 passengers, and approximately 135,000 passengers arrived through 680 ferry trips from Samos Island.
He emphasized that therefore the targeted level of 900,000 passengers has been surpassed.
Explaining that Kuşadası alone accounts for about 50% of the total passenger ship and passenger traffic in Türkiye, Güngör said that the recovery that began in 2022 after the COVID-19 pandemic continued in 2023.
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