Tourism, the proud of Turkey!

Hey everyone, it’s me, Jorick

We and our group are visiting Turkey.  We really looked forward to visit this country because it was very cold in the previous countries we visited. Now, we’re in Turkey where the weather is much nicer J. Turkey is a very large country so we’d really like to visit as much regions as we can. We travel from the east to the west. We will especially visit economic areas. First we will visit Trabzon and then we’ll travel more to the west.

Trabzon is a city located at the coast of the Black Sea in the northeast of Turkey. The city is known for its fishery. Twenty percent of the total Turkish fishery is made by the Trabzon fishers, which is quiet impressive I think.

From Trabzon we go to the southeast, to Antalya. Antalya is a very touristic city that is very popular among European tourists. The last 10-15 years, Turkey built out its tourism sector and became one of the leading countries in tourism. Antalya is a “textbook example” of it, it’s one of Turkey’s leading cities in tourism and we must say that we’re really having a nice time up in here. But tourism isn’t the only source of income for the Antalya region. Agriculture too is a very important economic factor for Antalya. This consists of olives, citrus fruits, cotton, bananas and cut flowers. We all agreed that Antalya is an economically progressive region.

Antalya was a great experience. Now, off to Istanbul! Arriving in this city, we were very impressed! Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and even Europe. Istanbul is also the center of Turkish economic life. This fact doesn’t surprise us. Istanbul on the Bosporus, is the perfect connection for trade between Europe and Asia. Eurasian trade offers enormous opportunities for this city and it’s an advantage for economic life over there! Furthermore, Istanbul also connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Black Sea. Like I said before, Antalya is one of the most important cities for the tourism sector, but so do Istanbul. With about 4 to 5 million tourists a year, Istanbul is a very attractive place to be.

We can definitely say that our trip to Turkey was very interested and quite impressive.  However, we certainly hadn’t enough time to visit everything... So, maybe I’ll come back to discover the remaining tourist attractions.

I hope you really liked my blog and if there are any questions you just let me know J

Jorick Verschraegen

Turkey week 5 (Economics)

Source: http://wikitravel.org/en/Turkey