Friday, August 15, 2014

Turkey and an important tourist destination for Algerians 5 years ago

Unofficial Turkish emblem (This is not the Tur...
Unofficial Turkish emblem (This is not the Turkish flag!), crescent and star: ay yıldız (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The vice president of the National Union of Algerian tourist agencies (NGOs), Elias Sanusi, said that Turkey has become an important tourist destination for Algerians, five years ago.
He said Sanusi told Anatolia, on Thursday, that the cities of Istanbul (northwestern Turkey) and Antalya (south) and Bodrum (west) and Bursa (north-west), has become one of the important destinations for tourists Algerians in the summer period.
He attributed the reasons for choosing these destinations Turkish Algerians, to what they offer many of the services at competitive prices, as well as the tourist and historical typists who characterize these cities.
Sanusi said that Antalya (southern Turkey), characterized by the nature of tourism, differ from Istanbul (north-west) that are unique historical in nature, where the palaces of the Ottoman and Islamic monuments, adding that "all the elements of the Algerian attract tourists."
According to figures issued by the Algerian Ministry of Tourism, Turkey has become more attractive to the Algerians, the ministry said 92 thousand Algerians visited Turkey, and that of the total two million citizens, they have to spend their vacation outside the country in 2013.
According to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, the number of tourists coming to Turkey about 118.18 thousand Algerian tourists during 2013.
The figures issued by the Turkish Embassy in Algiers, that between 40 thousand and 50 thousand Algerians visited Turkey in the years 2009 and 2010.
Sanusi explained that one of the reasons that made the jump to the forefront of Turkey's tourist destinations for the Algerians, in addition to Tunisia, Morocco, France, the Turks are convinced Algerian tourists, the high level of services they provide, either in hotels or tourist sites.
Sanusi said that Turkey has benefited from European experiences in the field of tourism and especially German, they made the establishment of luxury hotels fit the wealthy class, and other hotels for the middle class, in order to target the tourists of different classes.
The Turkish tourism revenues rose by 7.9% in the second quarter of this year, compared to the same period last year, reaching revenues of $ 8.9 billion, according to the Turkish Statistical Authority.
Sanusi added that the tourism and hotel services provided in Turkey even took into account the needs of children, Sanusi said "Algerians traveling to Turkey, accompanied by their children, which made the Turks are thinking small in this category and provide them as requested."
He said Sanusi The Turks had the marketing media outstanding tourism in their own country, through the production of historical series, and trendy, which promoted tourism historical particular, citing the example miniseries Turkish topline "Harem Sultan," which dealt with the date of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, which made many of Algerian tourists traveled to this palace of Sultan to visit him in Istanbul.
The most prominent Sanusi also ease the procedures established by the Turkish Embassy in Algeria, and for obtaining a visa, as one of the most important factors in attracting Algerians to Turkey, saying that "the time required to obtain a visa to Turkey, not to exceed three days in all cases, the duration of alluring travel to Turkey, compared with other countries such as France, which may reach as long as necessary to get her visa to two or three months. "
Turkey has seen a rise in the rates of inbound tourism to 7.6% over the past year, and the number of tourists then 39.2 million people, of whom 33.8 million foreign tourists, and the rest of the 5.4 million Turks living abroad. The total tourism revenues to Turkey of $ 32.3 billion, a rise of 11.4% compared to 2012.
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