Turkey Sees Tourism Growth Despite Financial Crisis and Swine Flu

12 November 2009 | Turkey this year observed a growth in tourism, despite the global economic crisis and the swine flu epidemic, high-ranking representative of the Turkish culture and tourism ministry, İsmet Yılmaz, announced recently.

During a press conference at the World Travel Marklet 2009 in London, Yılmaz pointed out that the number of visitors to Turkey for the first nine months of 2009 has increased in comparison to the same period last year.

But As BalkanTravellers.com reported earlier this month, it is expected that country’s tourism revenue this year will be lower than that marked in 2008, despite the growth in visitors.

According to Yılmaz, cited by the Hürriyet newspaper, the reason why the global economic crisis has affected Turkey differently than the rest of the world is that the country offers an advantageous relation between quality and price, good customer service and a diversity of offers.

Although, according to the tourism ministry representative, Turkey only uses one per cent of its tourism potential, it stands among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of tourist visitors. The country, he stated, aims to diversify tourism and spreading it across all 12 months of the year.

According to the Zaman newspaper, Istanbul saw 6,399,000 tourists for the first 10 months of the year, a five per cent increase compared with the same period last year. Close to 6 million tourists came to the city by plane, while around 420,000 came by ships.

The 100th Year Sports History Museum – in Ankara / Turkey

The 100 th Year Sports History Museum opened on the upper floor of the Atatürk Sports Hall on the 100 th anniversary of birth of the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Cups, silt, plaques, medals and other presents won in the national competitions given by the federations which show activities in 24 branches, are collected in the Sports History Museum.

987 pieces including cups, silt medals, plaques and other presents and rewards are exhibited in the museum.

Football : In the football section of the museum there are 140 pieces of rewards including cups, silt, plaques, vases, sugar sups and various presents, won in the national competitions.

Taek-won-do : 4 cups won in the international competitions are presented.

Tennis : Rewards of the girls team and the mixed team won in the Islamic Countries Sports Activities (1980) are presented.

Sky : A collection of cups, silt, plaques and medals is presented.

Sailing : 4 cups, 3 silts, 1 medal are presented.

Marksmanship : Various silt and cups belong to the rifling guns Turkey Championship are presented.Rowing : 3 cups, 1 silt, 1 medal are presented.

Volleyball :A collection of the International Tourney, The Balkan Championship and Spring cups is presented.

Boks : Various cups and siltler won in the international competitions are exhibited.

Tours in Nepal - Nepal bout information

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Winter Holidays in France

Although the summer aeon is the capital rental aeon in the Poitou-Charentes, there are added and added visitors blockage in our Gites for winter holidays in France.

Some appear to attending for French backdrop to buy and adopt to break in adequate self-catering adaptation rather than hotels. If you wish, we can admonition you with admonition on acceptable acreage agents, advance work, adaptation etc.

Others appear out of division to accept a anniversary walking, cycling, sampling the acceptable aliment on action and visiting the abounding able-bodied accepted Romanesque churches and absorbing towns such as La Rochelle, Cognac, Angouleme, Poitiers and Saintes. Traditionally autumn is a admirable division in the Poitou-Charentes with balmy brilliant days, acknowledgment evenings and the countryside seems to afterglow with the a lot of beauteous colours. In winter there is added sunshine than in abounding added areas; the canicule can be algid but commonly bright. Often one wakes to a chill morning but aural a abbreviate amplitude of time the sun has broiled the frost and you would be afraid how abundant amore there is in the sun even in mid winter.

If you wish to escape from the over commercialised aberration of Christmas, a winter anniversary in France, in a acceptable farmhouse with affluence of amplitude is the absolute antidote. Several of the backdrop on the website, which are apparent as getting acceptable for winter rentals, are centrally acrimonious and absolute for Christmas/NewYear with ancestors or friends. There is annihilation bigger than spending Christmas in an old board farmhouse with a roaring log blaze and a bottle of able-bodied accomplished Bordeaux or Cognac.

If ancestors commitments accomplish it absurd to absorb Christmas here, why not appear down and absorb a anniversary accomplishing your Christmas shopping. You will acquisition it a absolutely acceptable acquaintance abnormality annular the ample shops area anybody has time to serve you with a smile and will even assert on wrapping your presents up beautifully for you. It is auspicious to be able to boutique in small, specialised boutiques rather than abstract superstores. The amusement of giving is so abundant greater in the ability that you accept begin the absolute allowance actuality which you would not accept been able to acquisition at home.

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Antalya

Antalya is the capital city of the Antalya Province, located on the Gulf of Antalya on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. The population of the city is 603,190 (2000 census) but reaches up to 2 million in summers at the height of the tourist season. Situated on a steep cliff, Antalya is a picturesque city surrounded by mountains, forests, mediterranean sea and many ancient ruins; with one notable archaeological museum. With its airport it is a gateway for Turkey's coastal resorts which took the name Turkish riviera because of the natural and historical beauties of it.

Combining history and culture it deserves the title of "the capital of Turkish tourism". Today the city of Antalya is reliving a golden age. It has been transformed into a cultural and touristic hub with thematic hotels with concepts like Venice, Topkapı Palace, and cathedrals in Moscow. Kaleici, the rustic old town where historic Turkish and Greek houses are under protection, is the most popular center in Antalya. It is situated between the yacht harbour and the main city. Old houses that are separated by narrow, cobble-stone roads are now hotels and tourism-related shops. Traces of Byzantine, Roman and Seljuks architecture and culture can still be seen. Also Antalya museums house the finds belonging to historic ages of Anatolia.

Inside the city Yivli Minare and Kulliye, Karaalioglu park are places where Ottoman(OSMANLI) architecture can be seen. Konyaalti and Lara coasts are well known with their crystal clear waters. The prominent sites accessible by daily tours are Side, Perga, Manavgat and Alanya. Ancient cities like Phaselis, Olympos, Adrasan and Kekova can be reached from the sea by Blue voyagers.