With over 8,000 kilometres of Black Sea, Mediterranean and Aegean coasts, Turkey offers a wide scenic variety from its gorgeous coastline and its fertile agricultural regions to its great mountains. Besides beach holidays, there is scope for cultural and religious tourism, mountaineering, hunting, mineral collecting, health tourism, etc. Turkey is a yachtsman's paradise and yacht tourism has become particularly popular in the last few years. To support and encourage it, numerous facilities have been built and expanded. Yachters will find world-class amenities when they sail Turkish waters.
Turkey offers extraordinary diversity in terms of sight, scenery and activities.
It is not a country with a single culture and single life style. Tourism Policies Turkey incorporated policies relating to holidaymaking and tourism in its economic planning in the early 1960s, establishing the first official tourism organisation in 1963. Turkish tourism was in its infancy in the 1960s, when the phenomenon and dimensions of tourism were not yet fully grasped. In the 1970s the state turned its attention to tourism, drawing up tourism development projects, regional plans and initiating infrastructure projects for the sector. In 1983, to encourage Turkish and foreign investment companies to participate more effectively in the development of Turkey's tourism sector, policies were amended by the Government.