Travel News - Bodrum, Turkey

Cheap flights to Bodrum fuel the growth of new marinas

The southern Aegean town of Didim in Turkey has the opportunity of joining the ranks of the serious players in Turkey's tourism industry, making it ready to compete with its bigger neighbours Bodrum and Fethiye. The area is a favourite for British holidaymakers and potential homebuyers who visit on cheap flights to Bodrum for the areas History, weather and beautiful beaches on the south Aegean coastline. Didim hosted the official opening ceremony of its brand-new "D-Marin" marina, which is considered as a huge boost to the general infrastructure development of the resort. Used in construction were 1.66 million tons of stone, 135,000 cubic meters of concrete and 2,670 tons of iron. A key feature is its environmental approach is that 112,000 trees will be planted within or close to the new marina.
Turkey presently has 45 marinas with a combined capacity of 14,000 berths and developments in line with the one in Didim are close to increasing this to 25,500 berths. The Turkish government is intending to invest some $750 million to build perhaps 22 new marinas. The intention is to double Turkey's share of Mediterranean yacht tourism from 5 percent to 10 percent. Cheap flights to Bodrum and Dalaman are an integral part of the regions development say cheap flight agency airflights.co.uk. To sustain development of a tourist industry requires holidaymakers to be able to travel on cheap flights whether they be staying in the cheap hotels and apartments that the resorts such as Didim and Marmaris or accessing the many yacht charters that are available through these newly built marinas.
Demand for cheap flights to Dalaman, Bodrum and Antalya has been rising sharply this year due to the popularity of resorts such as Kusadasi, Altinkum, Gumbet, Calis, Fethiye and Didim. This popularity has been further fuelled by Turkey being outside the Eurozone. Cheap flights to Turkey can be found online from Airflights.co.uk who is an independent travel agency established for over 14 years it and is fully Abta bonded for the protection of its clients, they specialise in cheap flights, hotels and apartments in areas such as Malaga, Alicante, Kalamata, Chania, Heraklion,Kos, Zante, Tenerife, Arrecife in Lanzarote, Antalya, Dalaman, Bodrum, Egypt and Cyprus. You can visit them online at airflights.co.uk or call on 0800 093 2615. They also have great deals on cheap car hire and cheap airport parking.

Article ID: 805, Posted: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:29:01 GMT