If you’ve been to the airport within the last few weeks or you travel regularly you may have noticed that passenger numbers have been steadily rising, as the start of the tourism season kicks in and the warmer weather approaches. This is a huge boost for an industry which suffered enormously during the covid-pandemic with multiple job losses throughout the sector, and businesses struggling as...
Demand for Overseas Property is rising at a rate of knots, and this is being seen across many International Markets including Turkey. There’s several reasons for this, which we will be covering in more detail throughout this piece, but ultimately they all point to one thing – which is that there’s no better time to buy Property in Turkey. Recovery from the Global Pandemic The global pandemic hit...
Wishing to further represent and express the culture, civilization and values of the Turkish Nation, President Erdogan kick started a campaign back in January to re-name the country from Turkey to Türkiye. Türkiye is the name for the country used in their language already, and now they want to carry the name over onto the International scene. The exact timing of the change, which will be present...
Are you familiar with the name of Zach King? He’s a famous digital illusionist and filmmaker, and to show off the new high tech facilities at Istanbul Airport, he’s just been commissioned to do a short commercial and film for them. Turkish Airlines, who will be the main tenant of the new hub actually commissioned Zach before, when he helped them produce a safety video for their new carrier, and...
Along with the Airline Industry, Cruise Liners and Cruise Companies took an absolute hammering during the pandemic and as a result of Covid, the Industry completely shut down for a period of just under 2 years, however, that is all due to change in 2022 as a successful worldwide vaccine programme and a much better understanding of the virus means restrictions can be lifted and cruise ships can once again...
For the second time in a row Istanbul has again won the Airport of the Year Award. The award, which is one of the most greatest honours in the aviator industry, was presented at the Air Transport Awards. Over 4,000 readers and leading executives of the avaition industry took part in the voting resulting in the selected winners of the awards. Over the past years winners of the competition included...
The year 2020 was a very difficult year to say the least due to the pandemic which forced the shut down of international travel. However things are looking up for Turkey with recent reports stating that the popular holiday destination has managed to bounce back in 2021 due to people heading back to the much loved country which has seen 2021 figures double those of 2020. Around 30 million visited...
Ferry services came to a halt for the past two years due to the COVID 19 pandemic but now the services between Turkey and the Greek Islands are beginning to start back up again. Before the pandemic hit, a total of 1 million passengers were transported each year by ferry services between Turkish and the Greek Islands. Chairperson Yusuf Ozturk of the Chamber of Shipping in Izmir stated that "with the...
The Mediterranean is the most popular region in the world for Tourism, and there’s always been huge competition to earn the title of the ‘Most Popular Country’ with the likes of Spain and Greece regularly appearing in the top 5. This time however it’s Turkey who appear at the top of the list, having welcomed more visitors than France, Spain & Italy during the last 10 months of 2021. It...
You may remember ‘The Big Move’ that took in place in 2019, when Turkish Airlines transferred from their old base of Ataturk Airport to the new Billion Dollar complex of Istanbul Airport, and for you Aviation Enthusiasts now is a great time to be watching the Television as you’ll be able to see how they did it, with a New Documentary which is airing this week! It was a huge logistics operation with...