In an interview to "Horiet Daily News" the President of Association of Tourist Agencies of Turkey Basharan Ulusou talks about the condition of touristic infrastructure of the country which in spite of conflict zones in the region develops successfully and has big perspectives in the future, reports GHN.
"Turkey is different as it was while first crisis of Iraq (1991). Today everyone knows and everyone is sure that Turkey is absolutely secure country. It is confirmed by the fact that tough situation in neighbor countries Syria and Iraq doesn't have negative influence on Turkey," says Basharan Ulusou and names numbers: "In January-July this year more than 20 million tourists visited Turkey that is more than 6,8% of the same period of last year." It is interesting that in 20012 Turkey visited only 10 million tourists.
Supposedly income of Turley from tourism will reach 35 billion dollars this year.
As Ulusou said Turkey has such kind of geographic location that serves to every direction of tourism: "We united regional landmarks from The Aegean Sea till Black Sea, from Mediterranean Sea to south-eastern direction."
Basharan Ulusou talked about priority countries of Turk tourists. As he said with the data of nine months of 2014 Georgia is one of those five countries that Turks visit most frequently (Georgia, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan)