TRNC turned the route into culture, sea, nature, health and gastronomy – Cyprus Newspaper

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus aims to reach over 2 million guests this season with its sea, culture, gastronomy, health, nature and adventure tourism.

Kyrenia Castle, Bellapais Monastery, Othello Castle, St. The TRNC, hosting many historical and cultural works such as Hilarion Castle, Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, offers attractive options to holiday lovers in the field of gastronomy with its rich local delicacies such as Hellim and Pastry, Cyprus meatballs, Molehiya, Rice and Walnut.

For those who want to enjoy the sand and the sun in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, the natural beauties of Glapsides, Acapulco, Alagadi, Altınkum, Denizkızı hosting many beaches in the TRNC, in order to realize a new breakthrough in the field of tourism.

In this context, the natural and cultural riches of the region are introduced to the world with the support of the Union of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB) and the Turkish Cypriot Tourism and Travel Agencies Association (Kıtsab) and the relevant ministries of the two countries.

TÜRSAB President Firuz Bağlıkaya, who made evaluations to the AA correspondent, said that tourism is the largest source of income of the TRNC and the tourist profile is the intensive ones.

Bağlıkaya mentioned that tourism does not only contribute to the TRNC in terms of income. evaluated.

– « The number of traveling is less than 2 million »

Expressing that the number of traveling to the TRNC last year is less than 2 million, Bağlıkaya said that they aim to turn the country’s direction to natural and cultural riches in tourism and that they are working for this with the island Cyprus project.

Bağlıkaya, « Here for tourism purposes to capture the next 2 million tourist figures, very important. The senior officials here are very important. We are trying to do our best in line with the same purposes. Our goal is to visit the TRNC, to eat, to see the nature of the culture, to get to know the nature of the culture. » he said.

– « TRNC is among the richest geographical regions »

Kıtsab President Orhan Tolun said that the TRNC is one of the richest geographical regions in the world in tourism and therefore the primary priorities of economic priorities shifted to this area.

Tolun said that they desire to create a sustainable structure in the field of tourism in the TRNC and said, “We want to spread tourism to 12 months, to remain more of the tourist, to spend money and to advertise the TRNC among themselves.” He said.

Tolun said that the average stay of a tourist in Türkiye is 8.5 nights in holidays, and that this number remained at 3.2 in the TRNC, said that the occupancy rate in hotels except the weekend density in the region did not reach the desired figures.

For this reason, Tolun said that they have carried out joint studies with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and said that the efforts to increase the housing capacity in the TRNC are continuing.

« The bed capacity of the hotels is 26 thousand and this number continues to increase. » He said that they want to take control of the house, villa type rentals.

Pointing out that 80 percent of the tourists in the TRNC came from cities such as Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara, Tolun said:

“Air traffic from these provinces concentrates on weekends and some special occasions. Ticket prices are very high in the periods when demand is intense, and this situation is reflected in sales in terms of tourism. It is important that the airline companies take this situation into consideration and bring their prices to reasonable levels.”