The cruise industry took a right beating during the covid pandemic, which was similar to the airline industry where pretty much everything was a standstill, so with 299,000 cruise passengers visiting Turkiye within the first five months of 2023, it’s great to hear that this highly popular industry is once again sailing the high seas, and ships are docking in the ports. It’s even more interesting to...
Large numbers of tourists from Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, Iran and the UK have helped to contribute to an increase of just over 27% of foreign arrivals into Turkiye when compared to 2022, with 9.53 million visitors in total to Turkiye between January and April of this year. Official data released by the Culture and Tourism Ministry revealed that Istanbul welcomed over half of all visitors so in the...
551 beaches and 23 Marinas throughout Turkey have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag resulting in a third place finish for 2023, under the global scheme run by the Foundation for Environmental Education based in Copenhagen. Initiated in 1987 and put into practise in 1993, the ‘Blue Flag’ scheme aims to award Beaches & Marinas with the award, as long as they follow a certain set of criteria...
This is great news for anyone in Turkey wanting to visit North Cyprus with affordable flights. Fly Kibris www.flykhy.com are flying direct from the popular destinations of Bodrum and Izmir with flights just 1 hour 10 minutes from Bodrum and 1 hour 19 minutes from Izmir. This is a great getaway for anyone wanting to experience the delights of beautiful North Cyprus. This new flight route begins on...
Liverpool is set to become Jet2.com’s 11th base in the UK when flights start operating from March 2024. Jet2 will be operating 20 new routes in the summer season with 54 departures on a weekly basis. Out of the 20 routes 7 are to destinations which are not currently operating from Liverpool. These routes are to Rhodes, Paphos, Zakynthos, Gran Canaria, Bourgas, Menorca and Funchal. Four of...
There are only a select few areas in the world that are going to be able to compete with Istanbul’s new family friendly ‘Garden’ which has been planted on the site of the former Ataturk Airport, with the first phase of the project officially unveiled last Sunday. Soon to become Türkiye’s largest public garden it will offer citizens approximately 2m square metres of green space once it’s...
This year will see Bodrum Cruise Port operating yet again as the main port hosting a total of 46 voyages of Lagoon Sea Cruises' Blue Sapphire. Back in 2022 Bodrum Cruise port was the main port which hosted 21 trips with a total of 15,000 passengers. The Blue Sapphire vessel is 200 metres long and can hold a total of 750 passengers. Flights to the Turkish, European and South American...
When a town like Bodrum becomes popular with locals, and citizens of the country start migrating there in large numbers, then you know it’s the People's Choice and a good place in which to invest & enjoy the rich cultural lifestyle which will undoubtedly be instilled in next to no time by the migration. That’s what happening in the beautiful town of Bodrum right now, as those who have...
Turkey is not all about fabulous beaches, a warm climate, and a delicious cuisine, it’s also an architectural & cultural wonder, with no less than 17 sites currently deemed to be that historically significant that they make the UNESCO World Heritage list, with another 84 sites having been forward for the ‘tentative list’. Modern day Turkey has been built around it’s richly diverse history...
An architectural dream, and one of the most iconic buildings in Istanbul, the ‘Blue Mosque’ was officially re-opened today by President Erdoğan following on from the completion of a 5-year restoration project. An important symbol for Istanbul it attracts a significant number of tourists and worshippers throughout the day, as it’s still a functioning Mosque, and has been even during the restoration...