Finally after 16 months Kusadasi has welcomed its first cruise ship. Due to the COVID19 pandemic everything hit pause which meant travelling came to a halt, but now things are starting to look more positive. Kusadasi is known for hosting a high number of cruise liners per year. The Cruise ship named The Blue Sapphire docked at Kusadasi's Ege Port in the early morning. The vessel travelled from Egypt,...
Foreign buyers of Turkish property are paving the way for the Real Estate recovery from Covid-19 as house sales grew by 16.2% year on year in May of this year. From a total of 59,166 residential properties that were sold in May, 1,776 of these were purchased by a foreign buyer which is an increase of 106.5%. Cheap loans and a strong Lira contributed to the surge in buyers, and even with a rise in...
If you like to visit beaches that have been awarded the prestigious ‘Blue Flag’ award, and you’ve done both Spain & Greece, then Turkey is next with 519 beaches which have been deemed safe, clean and of the highest quality. One of the world’s most recognised voluntary awards for beaches, the ‘Blue Flag’ is only given to those that have met & maintained a series of strict environmental,...
Already a highly successful airline ranked among the top 10 globally in terms of capacity and performance, Turkish Airlines is now on the hunt for more routes as it continues to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and offer more travel destinations to it’s ever growing following of travel hungry passengers. Serving around 28 million passengers in 2020, around 40% of it’s total passengers pre covid-19,...
Over the next 10 weeks we will be taking a look at some of Turkey's best places to visit!! This week we will be taking a look at Turkey's capital Ankara!! The capital is located centrally in the Anatolia region with a population of around 5.5 million making Ankara Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul. Ankara is set upon a steep hill located to the North East. Ankara has a dry climate with...
Recent reports have stated that Easy Jet holidays are aiming to fly out 1 million tourists to Turkey this year. The CEO Garry Wilson has said that "Easy Jet offers 18 routes between the United Kingdom and Turkey. As the travel restrictions are lifted, we are hoping to fly to the country with 1 million seats. Turkey has been one of the best-selling destinations during the pandemic." Wilson has said “We...
Action movie star Jason Statham has been working in the Turkish Riviera for the past two months on British director Guy Ritchie's new movie "Five Eyes" and has apparantly been singing Turkey's praises. The actor has been staying at a hotel at Belek Tourism Centre where he met with hotel chairman Ali Safak Oztur who has stated that he was very glad to host Mr Statam during his time in the Mediterranean...
Film director and screenwriter Guy Ritchie has been seen in Istanbul visiting Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque and Topkapi Palace.The British film maker was touring the city with his wife Jacqui Ainsley. Ritchie has been shooting his latest movie "Five Eyes" in the Antalya region of Turkey and took a day off to exlpore some of Istanbul's famous landmarks with his wife and crew members before heading back to...
Despite the worries of Covid-19 and flights being few and far between, Turkey was still highly popular amongst British Travellers this Summer, with 30% of all searches on Travel Supermarket being for holidays in Antalya, Dalaman, Fethiye, and Istanbul. Turkey’s relative low rate of infection meant that not only were flights able to resume here pretty quicky, but also, and more importantly travellers...
So you’ve decided that Turkey is the place for you, and that’s great news, so firstly welcome to this beautiful country, we hope you have a long and prosperous life here, but with so many towns and cities each of which have their own unique charm and reasons for living there, where do you settle? Well, it really depends on what you class yourself as, but let’s start with Istanbul - a place that many...