Turkish Tourism
Turkey: Second most preferred and complained about
Istanbul, Turkey - A survey by the well-respected German travel magazine Urlaub Perfekt has ranked Turkey the second most popular tourism destination of 2008 and second on a list of most complained about destinations.
Commenting on the results of the survey in a written statement yesterday, Europe-Turkey Tourism Business Council president Hüseyin Baraner said there has been a considerable increase in the number of bookings by foreign agencies since the start of the new year, corresponding to the findings of the survey.
The survey was conducted among 1,208 travel agencies operating in Germany. Nine hundred eleven agencies ranked the Spanish islands of Mallorca and Menorca as their "number one" choice. Turkey was chosen by 691 agencies as the second most favored destination for 2008. Greece came third in the survey, with 631 votes. An interesting result was that Italy and Tunisia, which are traditionally favored by many European tourists, were at the bottom of the list, with 133 and 120 votes, respectively.
Baraner called Turkey's second position among the most complained about countries a "paradox," underlining that this is not a new situation. He said that a similar picture had emerged over the last four years. A total of 751 agencies said Tunisia was most complained about tourism destination, followed by Turkey with 552 votes.
Baraner also noted another result in the survey -- Turkey was voted the best in terms of prices and quality of service. It also led the list of destinations for families with children. "These rankings clearly show the apparent paradox of being the second most preferred country despite large numbers of complaints, he said.
Turkey hosted 23 million tourists in 2007, almost half of which came from Germany and Russia. Fueled by a government decision to decrease the value-added tax (VAT) to 10 percent from 18 percent for tourism investment, the industry is expecting to attract 26 million visitors this year.
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What a sick mind you have. You are not only a sick man but also an ignorant OR JUST A RACİST.
THE MEANİNG OF YOUR WORDS "Europeans, wake up... stop helping a country which will fight you in the near future" İS
Stop helping Germany the invader of all europe just 50 years ago. Stop helping Italy of Mussoluni. Stop helping Communists Iron Block Hungary, old yougoslavian, romania, bulgaria, slovakia, estonia, latvia, etc.
Thousands of examples of massacres and genocides occured in europe by european societies. 100 years and religious wars between france and germany, Jews in 1940s, Bosnaian in 1993-95 and so on...
Europe was the blood pool in the history. Europeans are more succesfull in the aspect of The number of victims in these wars and the number of events. FOR EXAMPLE 55 MILLIONS PEOPLE KILLED ONLY IN 2. WAR. most of them was civil.
I don't know what to call this gentlemen calling others barbarians while he is supporting their teroristic activities. I wish he will be a very close witness during shopping while they blow up the store he is in for their freedom fight!
What a sick mind to say these,
"if they have to fight: the Kurds who are also fighting rightly for their freedom, will seize the occasion to attack tourist destinations inside the country... this is where they should bring thier war to: this is not terrorism... this is war... they are fighting for a country..."
I don't know what to call this gentlemen calling others barbarians while he is supporting their teroristic activities. I wish he will be a very close witness during shopping while they blow up the store he is in for their freedom fight!
What a sick mind to say these,
"if they have to fight: the Kurds who are also fighting rightly for their freedom, will seize the occasion to attack tourist destinations inside the country... this is where they should bring thier war to: this is not terrorism... this is war... they are fighting for a country..."
Turkey is a great destination that I visited a few times. I always saw the Turks as Barbarians until I visited the country and found them sympathetic, smiling... Too bad that it is a country which become Barabarian if they have to fight: the Kurds who are also fighting rightly for their freedom, will seize the occasion to attack tourist destinations inside the country... this is where they should bring thier war to: this is not terrorism... this is war... they are fighting for a country...
After all, Turkey still does not admit the genocide of the Armenians...
Europeans, wake up... stop helping a country which will fight you in the near future...
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