Hotels, Clubs and a GOOD Holiday in Turkey
Italian-flagged “Aida Diva”, one of the biggest cruise ships of the world, anchored in Marmaris port in the western province of Mugla on Tuesday.
“Aida Diva” carried 619 personnel and 2,026 passengers most of whom were from Germany.
The ship will hold five more cruises to Marmaris this year.
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Marmaris is set to have a sister city in China. The popular holiday district in the western city of Muğla signed a pre-protocol with the Chinese town of Jinan on Monday that will link them as sister cities.
In Marmaris on Saturday evening, Mou Luyang, the mayor of the 6 million people in Jinan, met Marmaris Mayor Ali Acar and Marmaris local administrator Serdar Polat.
“If we can be sister cities, we can collaborate in education, health and commerce,” Luyang said at the Marmaris Chamber of Commerce, or MTO.
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After receiving reports of pollution, deputies from the Parliament’s Environmental Commission investigated fish farms in Muğla’s Güllük and Güvercinlik bays in Turkey’s Aegean region. Following the investigation, it was decided that the farms should be moved to a new location and that the ones who did not abide would be punished, said Mehmet Şahin, head of the Muğla Environment and Forest Directorate.
As a result, 29 of 133 fish farms were ordered to be shut down, as their time to move expired yesterday. Those 29 fish farms will also be penalized for the pollution if they continue operation.
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Sally Verbiest takes pleasure in flying the Kiwi flag off the eastern Mediterranean’s Carian coast.
“I’m in heaven,” exclaimed my brother, Paul, on the first morning of our holiday cruising around the Datca Peninsula of Turkey.
He had just emerged from a pre-breakfast dip in the clear, warm waters of the Southern Aegean. The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted across the bay.
When a friend generously offered us the use of his 13.5-metre yacht late last northern hemisphere summer, it was a question of when rather than if we should go to Turkey. Mid-September seemed the ideal time to go, after the peak European holiday season.
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The fear of unemployment in England coupled with the severe decrease in value of the sterling compared to the Euro and the Dollar has resulted in a drop of demand for international all-encompassing holiday packages. As a result, prices for holiday packages have also decreased significantly.
Following an announcement made by large tour operators in Turkey that summer vacation reservations have decreased by 11 percent, in comparison to figures from last year, travel agencies also revealed that they have been left with thousands of unsold package holiday options.
The overall drop in the tourism sector has resulted in record low prices for holiday offerings by tourism companies. For example, one of the nation’s biggest tourism companies Thomas Cook is offering a two-week stay at a studio flat in Marmaris for as low as 23.48 pounds, not including breakfast or dinner. If two customers were to share the studio, at that price it means the nightly rate is as low as 84 pennies. Meanwhile, the price for a five-night stay for two people in a three-star hotel in central Las Vegas, with a pool and restaurant has dropped to under 93 sterling, bringing the cost for one night per person to 9.27 pounds.