Turkey tourism
To survive the long and varied coastline, high mountains and lakes, and its many historical, religious and archaeological sites (possibly more than the Greek ruins in Greece type), the country unparalleled tourism potential. Until the 1980s, Turkish tourism lagged far behind its counterparts remain in other countries of the Mediterranean, and the visitors more for shorter periods and spend less money than in countries such as Spain, Portugal and Greece. The Özal government promotion of tourism in the 1980s led to dramatic changes. The number of visitors grew rapidly in the 1980s and early 1990s, and Turkey could appeal to tourists from many different countries. Including business people, Turkey hosted about 1.3 million visitors in 1983 and 2.1 million in 1984, while Greece in the same period at least EUR 6 million and Spain received 40 million visitors annually. Up to 1987 visits to Turkey was around 2.9 million by 1992 and nearly 7 million. In the early 1980s, most tourists came from European countries has increased, particularly in Greece and the Federal Republic of Germany, but the number of tourists in the Middle East. Even in the late 1980s, but European tourists accounted for nearly 61 percent of total arrivals. Until 1992 the European share to 45 percent.The biggest increase in tourist had been dropped from the republics of the former Soviet Union registered. Until 1992, they made 43 percent of the tourists, while sharing in the Middle East had shrunk from 11 percent to 8 percent. Geographic origin is a good predictor for the type of tourism and destination. Middle-class Turks, who prefer to holiday in the early 1980s, as a rule, the resorts on the Aegean and the Mediterranean sea starts. Tourists from Western Europe, Israel and the United States tend to visit beaches and historical sites. Eastern European tourists, especially from the former Soviet Union, usually to Istanbul and Black Sea cities come to shop or barter goods. Tourists from Iran and other Middle East countries usually take a longer holiday in Istanbul and Bursa, in Turkey, also from the shop. Although tourism earnings reached U.S. $ 770,000,000 in 1985 and rose to U.S. $ 3,600,000,000 to 1992, the industry of political, economic and environmental problems has plagued. The fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union, terrorist attacks by Kurdish rebels and economic problems in Europe and the Middle East tend to discourage tourism. Turkey has tried to overcome these obstacles by improving the domestic services. The number of beds for visitors rose from about 49,000 in 1980 to approximately 206 000 in 1992, for example. The total will probably reach 600,000 by the end of the 1990s. A major initiative, the South-Antalya-project includes the conversion of a seventy-four km long beaches on the Mediterranean for a base in villages.Istanbul, the main tourist center, not enough beds, however, and there is a tendency to focus on luxury hotels that focus too expensive for the middle-class tourists. However, the mid-1990s saw a marked improvement in the average expenditure per day by the tourists: U.S. $ 141 compared with the global average of U.S. $ 70-US $ 100 Shopping trips contributed to the average significantly.
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