{"id":54923,"date":"2018-09-04T21:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/mer-antalii-dlia-goroda-nastypil-zolotoi-vek-tyrizma.html"},"modified":"2018-09-04T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:01:33","slug":"mer-antalii-dlia-goroda-nastypil-zolotoi-vek-tyrizma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/mer-antalii-dlia-goroda-nastypil-zolotoi-vek-tyrizma","title":{"rendered":"Antalya Mayor: \u201cThe city has entered a \u2018golden age\u2019 of tourism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Antalya Mayor Menderes T\u00fcrel told local journalists that the resort city is entering a &quot;golden age&quot; in tourism, reports <\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>illiyet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/afff88997de9ff69d7c7830b17cc6050.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the mayor, the city can currently accommodate more than 2.5 million tourists at a time. This year, Antalya, <!--more-->One of the world&#039;s most important tourist centres is preparing for a new all-time record of 14 million foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;In 2001, when I was the chairman of the Antalya Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we expected that 7-8 million tourists would start visiting the city, but this was more of a wish. And today, some people do not believe it, but in a few years, Antalya will already be hosting 20 million tourists a year,&quot; <strong>the mayor added. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nHe also clarified that the record figures are largely due to the increase in tourist flows from Russia and Germany.<\/p>\n<p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0fce6b66492b5e6929549719ec4ac37d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStating that Antalya has a strong infrastructure in terms of tourism,<strong> Menderes T\u00fcrel also stressed that <\/strong>the population does not feel the intensity of the industry&#039;s development, and local residents are not bothered by visitors at all, as is the case in some popular European cities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe current infrastructure can meet the target of 20 million tourists per year,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/80542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antalya Mayor Menderes T\u00fcrel told local journalists that the resort city has entered a &quot;golden age&quot; of tourism, Milliyet reports. According to the mayor, currently<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}