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Turkey Property Syria shows support for Turkish tourism

Syria has pledged its continuing commitment to tourism in Turkey at the Turkish-Syrian Business Forum in Damascus.Syrian Finance Minister Muhammad al-Husayn detailed the difference that new tax changes have made with regards to holidaymakers from the country selecting Turkey as their destination of choice.According to the Turkish Press, he said: "We pay high attention to developing relations with Turkey. We have reduced the travel tax for Syrian citizens travelling to Turkey to 11 USD. "Syrian citizens travelling to other neighbours of Syria must pay higher travel taxes. Following...

30-04-2008 - read more...

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Turkey Property Turkey taps into to cruise tourism market

Turkey appears to be winning over an increasing share of the global cruise tourism market, currently valued at $30 billion (£51.13 billion), according to one expert.Dilek Gappi of newspaper Gozlem Gazetesi highlighted recently-reported figures which suggest that more than 1.25 million cruise passengers passed through Turkish ports during 2007.Hotspots for the cruise trade are said to include the ports of Istanbul, Kusadasi, Izmir, Antalya, Alanya, with Marmaris and Bodrum earmarked as up-and-coming locations.Mr Gappi commented: "A number of ports which seemed idle in the past have...

28-04-2008 - read more...

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Turkey Property Internet campaign is ministrys promotional tool

Turkey's ministry of culture and tourism is continuing its committed advertising campaign by placing advertisements across the globe on search engine Yahoo.Commercials drawing attention to the plus points of Turkey as a holiday destination will be featured on websites in countries including the US, Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Israel, reports the Turkish Press.Also, according to the news provider: "[The] world's well-known online travel company Expedia prepared a four-page Turkey site."Expedia will introduce Turkey's history, culture, main cities as...

28-04-2008 - read more...

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Turkey Property Turkey plans to protect heritage sites

Ways in which Turkey can go about protecting sites named on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage List have been discussed leading to management plans for a number of locations being drawn up.Talks were organised by the Ministry of Cultural and Tourism and the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO and have led to a new focus to ensure the safeguarding of the precious places, reports the Turkish Daily News.Administrative board member of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, Gul Eropoglu, told the newspaper: "Historic places...

22-04-2008 - read more...

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Turkey Property US travel event in Turkey for 2010

Turkey's tourism industry will be given a chance to tap even further into the US market when the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) brings the International Destination Expo (IDE) to Istanbul in 2010.Hundreds of travel agents from the US and wider world are expected to be present at the event, which coincides with Istanbul's reign as the European Capital of Culture the same year.Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay expressed his satisfaction that ASTA executives had chosen Istanbul as their host city.According to the Turkish Daily News, he told them at a press conference:...

22-04-2008 - read more...

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Turkey Property Tourism ministers in environmental agreement

European tourism ministers have held discussions on the best way to protect the environment of the Mediterranean Sea's coastal areas.Officials from 27 countries, including Turkey's minister of culture and tourism Ertugral Gunay, agreed on measures that will be taken to curb the over-development of hotels and other facilities along the coast.Turkey is a country which is already taking steps to preserve its beauty for the future, imposing height restrictions on developments in some areas in order to avoidthe overcrowding which has been seen in some Spanish resorts.Philippe de Fontaine Vive,...

04-04-2008 - read more...

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Turkey Property Turkish tourism investors to have environmental commitments

Investors who cut down trees to clear the way for tourism developments will be required to plant twice as many trees.Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertugrul Gunay announced the plans as a way of compensating for the damage done to the environment as a result of some ventures, reports Today's Zaman.Mr Gunay, who was speaking at the Third BelekTourism Panel Discussion, which is run by the Belek Union of Tourism Investors (BETUYAB), commented: "We must not handle nature roughly because we didn’t inherit it from our ancestors. "Rather, it is a trust from our children for...

01-04-2008 - read more...

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Commonwealth marks Anzac day in Gallipoli

Thousands of visitors from around the Commonwealth gathered in Turkey to mark Anzac Day on the shores of Gallipoli.Vice-chief of the Australian Defence Force, Lieutenant-General Ken Gillespie and New Zealand foreign minister Winston Peters gathered in the service to commemorate the Australian, New Zealand, British and other imperial and Ottoman troops who fell in the Dardanelles.Nearly 400,000 men on both sides fell in the 1915 campaign and commemorations were held by both visitors to Turkey and by Turks living in Australia and New Zealand in a display of solidarity."The bedrock for our...

25-04-2007 - read more...

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