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Turkey has imposed a 14-day quarantine on passengers from eight countries, including India, to prevent the spread of covid-19. Turkish Airlines has announced that it will impose quarantine for 14 days for people from eight countries, including Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, and Nepal. Passengers traveling to these countries within the last 14 days must submit a negative result of the PCR test conducted a maximum of 72 hours prior to entry back into the country. Passengers arriving from the United Kingdom, Iran, Egypt, and Singapore must submit a negative result of the PCR test conducted ... Read more

Travel Turkey Izmir International Tourism Fair, organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the cooperation of IZFAS(Izmir Fair Services Cultural and Art Affairs Trade Inc. and TURSAB Exhibiton Services Inc. Co. and hosted by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, It will be held only virtually with its own digital infrastructure and will take its place among the digital fairs around the world as the 14th Travel Turkey Izmir Digital Fair. 14.Travel Turkey Izmir Digital Fair will be the first virtual exhibition of the tourism industry in Turkey, the world around tourism professionals will meet in the ... Read more

Kuwaiti airline, Jazeera Airways will start flying from Ahmedabad to Bodrum, Turkey via Kuwait starting June 20. The inaugural flight will depart from Ahmedabad every Thursday at 5:35 am (IST) and will return to Ahmedabad every Monday. Economy class on the flight will cost around Rs 18,700. Kuwait’s leading low-cost airline, operating regionally and internationally, celebrated one year of operations from its dedicated Terminal 5 (T5) at the Kuwait International Airport, marking one of the few commercial terminals to be operated by a private airline in the world. The airline marked the milestone in a closed event attended by officials ... Read more

Tourism sector of Spain saw slow growth in 2018, as the rival countries like Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia recovered during the time. It was revealed by a report by industry lobby group Exceltur The sector ratcheted up USD 162 billion in sales, 2 per cent more than in 2017, as per a recent report; while that growth was slower than in previous years. In 2017, it had increased by 4.5 per cent and in 2016 by 5 per cent. On Wednesday, the government had acknowledged that 2018 had been another record year in terms of foreign visitor numbers, which reached ... Read more

Turkey’s Hasankeyf and its surrounding limestone cliffs are home to thousands of human-made caves, 300 medieval monuments and a unique canyon ecosystem. But, the 12,000-year-old town is doomed to disappear in the coming months. An artificial lake, part of the Ilisu hydroelectric dam project, will swallow it up. The dam has been built further downstream the Tigris. Ilisu is a central element of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), a land development plan to boost the economy of the long-neglected region, through hydroelectric energy and irrigation. The dam will be Turkey’s second largest. It has been built further downstream of the Tigris ... Read more

Indian passport holders, who are eligible for Turkish e-visa, will have to obtain their visas before their departure to Turkey as the e-visa kiosks are not operational at airports in Istanbul. The Embassy of Republic of Turkey had recently scrapped its policy of visa-on-arrival for a number of nationalities, including India. Indian citizens are eligible for e-visa if they have a valid US, UK, Ireland and Schengen visa. Those who don’t have any of these valid visas, will have to apply for a Turkish via through its embassy. The Turkish embassy in New Delhi posted a message on its website saying that, ... Read more

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has officially opened the first phase of the new Istanbul Airport on 29 October – Turkish National Day. The aircraft of Turk Hava Yolları company operating the first flight from the new Istanbul airport has landed at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport. The airport which spans around 823 million square feet in size, is poised to become the world’s largest airport when completed in 2028. Having departed from Istanbul at 09:30, the aircraft landed in Baku at 13:25. Starting from November 8, one flight from Istanbul Airport to Baku will be carried out daily. The Ataturk Airport in ... Read more

The Republic of Turkey said it will discontinue the visa on arrival service from October 28, to a number of nationalities, including Indians. Visitors will need to take a visa before reaching Turkey as the e-visa kiosks at Istanbul airport will not generate visa from the last week of October. Citizens from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and a 100 other countries are eligible for e-visa, which needs to be obtained before you start the journey. Applicants can obtain e-visas after entering the required information for the application and making an online payment. A link to download the visa is the final ... Read more

Istabul, Turkey Turkey’s currency, lira has reached an all-time low against the pound, stimulating a rush in inbound tourists from UK. Lira reached 0.15 against pound sterling, resulted from a continuous decline during the past twelve months. The decrease in value during this period is around 35 per cent. Anyone changing 100 pound would get more than 650 lira. As per Thomas Cook’s recent reports, there has been an increase of around 63 per cent in bookings to Turkey during 2018, when compared to 2017. Antalya airport in Turkey excelled Spain’s Palma de Mallorca as the company’s most served airport ... Read more

Barcelo Resorts (Photo Courtesy: Bookings.com) Spanish hotels are cutting prices on summer holiday packages as tourists return to destinations like Turkey and resorts in North Africa, while visitor numbers to Spain continue to be increasing for the past four years. Tourism is one of major revenue earner of Spain, accounting for around 11 per cent of Spain’s total revenue. Last year around 82 million tourists visited Spain, making it the world’s second most visited country after France. Spain’s hotels have exploited the country’s popularity as a sought after tourist destination and increased prices on average by 21.4 per cent over ... Read more

Cappadocia, the historic land in Turkey attracts more foreign arrivals, attracted by its vibrant natural tourism products. The city is blessed with unique landscape featuring the fairy chimneys, natural rocks and valleys. According to tourism statistics, about 2.5 million tourists have visited Cappadocia on average with 100 per cent hotel occupancy stats. It was a huge milestone for Turkey, calling it as the “golden year” with this remarkable achievement on tourism. Meanwhile, during 2016 a series of terrorist attacks have ruined Turkey’s integrity upon foreign arrivals. With challenges ahead, the authorities have initiated a strong come back through international fairs ... Read more

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Suresh Prabhu inaugurated the 33rd edition of ‘AAHAR 2018’, a 4-day event on International Food and Hospitality at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The event is organised by India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), in association with Agricultural Processed Food Products Development Authority (APEDA), and Ministry of Food Processing Industries. The fair features over 900 exhibitors from India and overseas, with a wide variety of food products. Participants from 18 countries have registered for this year’s event. China, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Oman, South Korea, Thailand, UAE, Peru, Norway, Indonesia, Canada, Tunisia, Hong Kong, Singapore, ... Read more

Turkey announced their new year 2018 as ‘The year of Troy’, with respect to celebrating the 20th anniversary of adding the old city of Canakkale on the UNESCO world heritage. Though Turkey has adopted various other possibilities in the field of tourism such as promoting their local cuisine, they have come up with a new approach to waking the global audience through the opening of Troy museum. The movie, which was a 2004 blockbuster and has fans from all over the world, generated with its distinctive characters featuring the history of Trojan War. The Turkish government thus predicts to draw ... Read more

അങ്കാര: അവരവരുടെ രാജ്യങ്ങളിലെ വിനോദ സഞ്ചാരികള്‍ക്ക് പരസ്പരം മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് നല്‍കുകയാണ് അമേരിക്കയും തുര്‍ക്കിയും. ആദ്യം അമേരിക്കയുടെ വക-തുര്‍ക്കി സന്ദര്‍ശിക്കുന്ന അമേരിക്കക്കാര്‍ക്ക് ആയിരുന്നു ആദ്യ മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്. സുരക്ഷാ കാരണങ്ങളാല്‍ അമേരിക്കന്‍ സഞ്ചാരികള്‍ തുര്‍ക്കി സന്ദര്‍ശിക്കുന്നത് ഒഴിവാക്കണം എന്നായിരുന്നു നിര്‍ദേശം. അമേരിക്കയുടെ മുന്നറിയിപ്പിന് പിന്നാലെ തുര്‍ക്കി തിരിച്ചടിച്ചു. ആസൂത്രിത അറസ്റ്റ് ഒഴിവാക്കാന്‍ അമേരിക്ക സന്ദര്‍ശിക്കുന്നത് ഒഴിവാക്കാനായിരുന്നു തുര്‍ക്കിയുടെ മുന്നറിയിപ്പ് . Photo Courtesy: Looklex അങ്കാരയിലെ അമേരിക്കന്‍ നയതന്ത്ര പ്രതിനിധി ഫിലിപ്പ് കോസ്നേറ്റിനെ വിളിച്ചു വരുത്തി തുര്‍ക്കി രോഷം അറിയിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു. പാകിസ്താന്‍, സുഡാന്‍ , ഗ്വാട്ടിമാല രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്കൊപ്പം സുരക്ഷിത യാത്ര കഴിയാത്ത ഇടമായാണ് അമേരിക്ക തുര്‍ക്കിയെയും പെടുത്തിയത്. നാറ്റോ സഖ്യ രാജ്യങ്ങളായ അമേരിക്കയും തുര്‍ക്കിയും തമ്മിലുള്ള ബന്ധം മോശമാവാന്‍ തുടങ്ങിയത് ഒരു വര്ഷം മുന്‍പാണ്. തുര്‍ക്കി ഭരണകൂടത്തെ അട്ടിമറിക്കാനുള്ള നീക്കത്തിന് പിന്നില്‍ അമേരിക്കയാണെന്ന ആരോപണം നിലനില്‍ക്കെയാണ് പുതിയ സംഭവ വികാസങ്ങള്‍.

Food is next best experience than the beauty of the destination that connects people to places. Gokhan Tufan, Chairman, All Cooks and Confectioners Confederation, asserts that there is a surge in tourist arrivals just to taste Turkish dishes. With the southern cities of Turkey, Haty and Gaziantep becoming UNESCO’s creative cities of gastronomy, the number of footfalls are expected to increase manifold. The concept of Gastronomic Tourism is quite popular across the globe as it fascinates a large number of food savants among the tourists. photo courtesy:go turkey tourism.com The Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Turkey enunciate greatly on ... Read more