Showing posts with label travel agencies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel agencies. Show all posts

Germany, the bad and rainy weather, increasing the number of German tourists to Turkey

Germany, the bad and rainy weather, increasing the number of German tourists to Turkey.

Torsten Schaefer of the German Travel Agencies Association spokesman, said in a statement today, the German Baltic Sea coast due to bad weather rather than the south of Europe is preferred, the most preferred among the countries of Spain and Turkey, he said.

Schaefer, therefore, a positive tourism last year and this year they are expecting an increase of 2 to 3 percent of Germans by traveling, "a tourism boom in the last minute to 5 percent more if the increase goes," he said.habertürk

along with Istanbul and Antalya, aims to attract half million Arab tourists in

Mehmet Akkus, chairman of executive board of South Marmara Region of Turkish Travel Agencies' Association (TURSAB), told AA correspondent that nearly 800,000 foreign tourists visited Bursa last year and 300,000 of them were Arabs.
Arab tourists could find anything in Bursa that they wanted, he said.

Akkus said that they aimed to attract half million Arab tourists to Bursa in 2012. "Bursa will host Turkish-Arab tourism gathering in April 2012 and it will be participated by representatives from 22 Arab countries," he said.

Works have been under way to make Bursa the tourism capital of the Middle East in 2013, he said.

Blessed with a delightful climate and the loveliest of settings south of the Karadag coastal uplands, Bursa with its picturesque Old Town and magnificent buildings (mosques) is one of the highlights of any visit to Turkey.

The city also enjoys a long-standing reputation as a spa, the thermal springs in the northwestern suburb of Cekirge, popular even in Roman times, attracting large numbers of visitors (modern baths and up-to-date treatment facilities).

ABTA Association of British Travel Agents, Travel Congress in the year 2012 will be in Antalya.

Commenting on the issue of Culture and Tourism Counselor Tolga Tuyluoğlu London, made ​​the decision of the congress in Antalya on October 5 in the city of Palma in Spain's Congress of ABTA are taken to be.
Tuyluoğlu, Antalya Convention and Visitors Bureau, co-operation and initiatives of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on the observations in Antalya on July 1 to 6 in the ABTA'nın, decided to travel in Turkey for the second time that the congress said.

Previously, Turkey, ABTA Travel Congress in Istanbul in 1996, played host.
The number of British citizens visiting Turkey in 1996 was 433 758 thousand, 700 thousand to 2 million people in 2010, this number has reached record Tuyluoğlu, Turkey, Britain's most popular tourist destination, is among the top five, he added.

10 to 12 October 2012 in Antalya Belek Cornelia De Luxe Resort Hotel to the congress, consisting of representatives of tour operators, travel agencies and nearly 1,000 delegates and 50 journalists are expected to participate in national and sectoral members of the press.

5 thousand and 1300 is a member of ABTA which represents travel agency subsidiary, in 2009 further strengthened by merging with the Federation of Tour Operators. ABTA Travel Congress in 2012, Turkey, United Kingdom travel industry is seen as an important opportunity for the presentation.