TOPICS regarding the fate of tourism and the coastal areas around Didim were raised in separate meetings last week. Tourism workshop A workshop for tourism officials was held in Kusadasi to address Aydin Province’s tourism action plan. Aydin Governor Ömer Faruk Kocak chaired the meeting at the Kusadasi Ephesus Congress tourism center and spoke of…
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Petition raised for sewer system AKBUK Culture and Environment Association (AKÇED) is lobbying the Aydin Municipality calling for a marked upgrade in the sewers across the resort. AKÇED, together with Didim Environment Platform (DİÇEP), have launched a petition locally in a bid to highlight the issue. According to the petition, said rapid population growth had…
Read More DIDIM Council is eyeing up a major campaign to stop potential development of a vast swathe of recreation land close to Altinkum. Parcel 1020 – the parcel number of the land in question – is located at the back of the Ruby Hill complex, just off the bottom of Ataturk Boulevard. The land – which…
Read More EXCLUSIVE TURKISH specialist travel agency Holidaymate has ceased operation, Voices can reveal. The company, which branded itself as the UK’s no 1 holiday specialist to Turkey, said in a message on their website that after 16 years it had “taken the decision not to renew its licence”. The message in full reads: “We write with…
Read More MONARCH Airlines has been given another 12 days to get its house in order — and demonstrate it has deep enough pockets to survive a difficult winter, reports the Independent. Monarch carries around 20,000 passengers a day, to and from five UK airports. With barely three hours before its Air Travel Organiser’s Licence (ATOL) expired…
Read More THE number of foreigners visiting Turkey fell 37.96 percent year-on-year to 3.1 million in August from 5.1 million a year earlier, the Tourism Ministry said. This, the Hurriyet said, was the 13th straight monthly fall in the number of foreign tourists visiting Turkey due to several terror attacks, a failed coup attempt and tensions with Russia.…
Read More CRIME across Didim has decreased generally for the first eight months of 2016, compared to last year, it was revealed yesterday (Thurs). Statistics from the Didim District Security Advisory Board meeting included: 0 murders 32.3 percent fall in violence against the person (woundings, assaults, public disorder) compared to 2015; 21.25 percent fall in theft/burglary against…
Read More READERS who regularly travel through Bopdrum airport to and from the UK have raised worries that airlines are limiting their choices for the 2017 tourism season. A number pointed out that the main headline operators were limiting choices in terms of where they flew out from next year in an apparent decision reflecting on the…
Read More FAMOUS Turkish actress Meryem Uzerli has ploughed 12.5 million TL into a new luxury villa at the new Canyon Ranch Wellness Resort, at Kaplankaya. Meryem invested in the villa on the $ 250 million resort which lies close to Bozbuk and Akbuk. Turkish national media suggested the star had revealed recently stayed at the resort…
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