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Date: February 10, 2012 | Written By admin
This week was a week of big tourism events in Turkey, events which brought a new realisation on tourism income growth in Turkey. The Turkey Tourism Summit in the Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Centre ICEC made the headlines for a rather controversial reason. Hurriyet headline: “Minister blames statistics body for poor calculation” in a story [...]
Date: February 9, 2012 | Written By admin
Istanbul, 8 February 2012 – The Hilton hotel group has announced plans to open 13 new hotels in Turkey taking its Hilton branded hotels in Turkey to 33. Making the announcement at the Central Asia and Turkey Hotel Investment Conference, Didier Martin, the Vice President Operations Eastern Europe Israel, Russia and Turkey at Hilton Worldwide [...]
Date: January 31, 2012 | Written By admin
Istanbul, 31 January 2012 – According to Turkish Statistical Institute Turkey’s tourism income rose by over 10 percent in 2011 (from 2010) reaching 23 billion USD. The UN World Tourism Organization ranks Turkey seventh in the world for the most visited destination. With the number of visitors to Turkey increasing year on year Turkey aims [...]
Date: January 6, 2012 | Written By admin
6 January 2012, Istanbul – In 2011 Turkey received over 30 million visitors making it the 7th most popular destination in the world. Of this 30 million 8 million people visited the stunning city of Istanbul according its Culture and Tourism department number. This number shows an increase of over 16 percent over the 6.9 [...]
Date: December 30, 2011 | Written By admin
It’s official, Turkey has crossed the long-anticipated threshold of 30 million visitors, a year later than expected. During the boom the government set the tourism target that Turkey would be receiving 30 million visitors per year by 2010. Then the credit crunch happened. Most tourism markets were completely derailed by the crisis as it engulfed [...]
Date: November 30, 2011 | Written By admin
Turkey holidays have been making the press for a lot of good reasons lately. One aspect is the massive volume and growth in cheap all inclusive holidays to the country. But on the flip side you have the government’s efforts to attract higher net worth individuals to the country, with one of the main avenues [...]
Date: November 29, 2011 | Written By admin
29 November 2011, Ankara – Mr Binali Yildrim, the Turkish Minister of Transportation, Maritime and Communications has opened the largest Eastern Med yacht marina in the southern Turkish town of Mersin. The marina has cost 100 million TRY (About 54 million USD) and can berth up to 1,000 boats. Mr Yildrim said the marina complex, [...]
Date: October 27, 2011 | Written By admin
27 October 2011, Istanbul – According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently released data Turkey is now one of the world’s favourite tourism destinations with over 25 million visitors in the first 9 months of 2011. In September alone almost 4 million visitors went to Turkey, an increase of over 12 percent [...]
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According to the latest data tourism to Turkey is continuing to grow strongly. The Culture and Tourism Ministry has just released data on the first nine months of this year, showing tourism up 10.67% compared to the same period last year. This is slower than the 12% year on year the body revealed for the [...]
Date: October 13, 2011 | Written By admin
The fact that the Turkish property market is booming this year is in little doubt, but there is increasing evidence that even with its rapid growth of late, that it could still be accelerating further. According to the latest data from the Turkish real estate investing partners association in conjunction with Reidin.com, Turkish property prices [...]
