When do tourism destinations achieve the industry’s equivalent of a football club’s promotion to the Premier League? The simple answer could be, looking at this from a UK perspective, is when British Airways starts flying there. It’s been a remarkable transformation for the holiday industry of South West Turkey. I first went there in 1987…. Continue reading
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Boutique hotels – bright new plan in still quiet spots on Turkey’s busiest coast
“Beautiful sea”, says my driver unnecessarily, with a one handed gesture to the sublime oblong inlet boarded by lush wooded hills up ahead. It’s not the first time I see the sea on the drive from the airport to Selimiye, but, suddenly appearing as we round a corner on the twisty road from Turgut, it… Continue reading →
Greener holidays make landfall on Turkey’s tourist coast
I paid my first visit to Turkey during the early years of mass tourism to witness, at first hand, a conspicuous conservation success. Here was a country listening to wise advice from overseas well-wishers, in this case German Green MEPs and pioneer British eco-warrior David Bellamy. They did not want the country to repeat the… Continue reading →