Turkey plans to attract half million Algerian tourists in two years
Turkish moved to the fifth speed in luring Algerian tourists, through calling upon the most famous Algerian travel agencies in the public and private sectors, and allocating nearly a week, for more than twenty agencies that are currently present in Turkey, from the east and the West, in order to advertise for Turkish tourism, both in summer, which depends on the beaches in Antalia region, which has become an international pole for cultural tourism through Istanbul.
Supervisor of the Turkish trip, Erdal Mustafa, said that the number of initiatives, through the reception of Algerian agencies, reached four in one year, focusing, in the recent initiative on the agencies located in the cities where there are flights between the two countries, which are Oran and Tlemcen, and now the focus is on Algerian eastern cities, after Turkish airline opened flights between Istanbul and Constantine, with two flights a week, and the same number with Batna airport, exploiting parallel service that is provided by Algerian airlines between Annaba and Istanbul.
Owners of Turkish tourist hotels and complexes agreed that the Algerian tourist has been placed in the same box of the Europeans, describing him/her as good through diversifying the kind of tourism, and expenditures as well, as learning French and Arabic languages has become one of the ways of tourism trade in Turkey, with reference to the supervisors of the initiative, which are Turkish tourist agencies, in cooperation with Turkish Airways.