Turkey hosted more than 3.2 million foreigners during the first two months of this year, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced Friday. The number of foreigners visiting Turkey rose 7.4 percent year-on-year in the period, official figures showed. Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city by population and a top tourist destination, attracted nearly 59 percent of all […]
Turkey attracted nearly 1 million people for health tourism in 2018, said an industry official on Tuesday. “Thermal tourism contributes to Turkey’s economy with healing waters, as well as seas, rivers and lakes,” Yavuz Yilik, head of the Thermal Health and Tourism Association (TESTUD), told Anadolu Agency. Yilik stressed that Turkey is one of the […]
In Turkey, 549,000 new jobs were created last year, Turkey’s statistical authority announced on Monday. “The number of employed persons aged 15 years old and over realized as 28.74 million persons with a 549,000-person increase,” TurkStat said. It announced that the employment rate was 47.4 percent — 65.7 percent for male, and 29.4 percent for female — […]
India’s wedding organizers predict a 300-percent rise in Indian weddings held in Turkey this year, Turkish culture and tourism minister said on Friday. Mehmet Nuri Ersoy met representatives from Turkish tourism industry and civil society in an event at the Chamber of Commerce in Bodrum, a touristic town of Mugla in the Aegean coast of […]
The full opening of Istanbul’s new airport, Istanbul Airport, has been delayed for the third time. Even though the inauguration of the mega-airport took place at the end of October of 2018, the full opening of the airport, including moving all operations from Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport to Istanbul Airport, has not occurred. Originally, the airport […]
Europe’s biggest theme park is set to open its doors to visiter on Wednesday in Turkey’s capital Ankara. Around 5 million domestic and foreign tourists are expected annually to visit Wonderland Eurasia, also known as Ankapark. The park was built by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and covers an area of 1.3 million square meters. The […]
Istanbul’s rank jumped 9 spots in the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), to 59th place, according to GFCI’s latest ranking. Published twice by the London-based Z/Yen group of companies, GFCI was established to provide evaluations of competitiveness and rankings for the major financial centers by using 133 instrumental factors and 2,373 online surveys. In its first […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 9 inaugurated the ruins of what is thought to be the world’s oldest temple. “Turkey is an open-air museum,” said Erdoğan, speaking at a ceremony at the Göbeklitepe archaeological site located in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şanlıurfa. Erdoğan added that archaeological research should be promoted in order to uncover more historical artifacts and sites in Anatolia region. With 2019 declared as “the Year of Göbeklitepe” […]
Around 206 Turkish institutions and organizations are representing Turkey at the world’s largest real estate fair, MIPIM 2019, that kicked off yesterday in Cannes, France. A number of Turkish real estate developers are once again showcasing their projects at the world’s largest real estate fair, MIPIM 2019, which kicked off yesterday and will go on […]
There are many reasons to come to Alanya. Perhaps the first one is the warm Mediterranean sun that shines throughout the year. The average temperature never falls below 19 degrees Celsius here in this town blessed with sunshine 300 days of the year. What’s more, getting there is as easy as pie thanks to Alanya Gazipaşa Airport. Just 135 kilometers […]