{"id":24128,"date":"2010-10-22T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=24128"},"modified":"2014-01-05T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T19:23:59","slug":"turkey-the-uks-favourite-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/10\/22\/turkey-the-uks-favourite-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, the UK\u2019s Favourite Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The UK weather is rapidly becoming colder and UK residents may be thinking of embarking on a short break during the upcoming winter season. Turkish beaches seem to be at the very top of the destinations list for such breaks during 2010.<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/oludeniz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to new figures released by UK market research agency, GfK, Brits embarking on beach holidays seem to favour Turkish beaches above all others. GfK\u2019s figures were released ahead of the World Travel Market, which is set to be held in London mid-November. The figures have also shown that Turkey is one of the top five destinations for growth in the UK travel market.<\/p>\n<p>This new popularity is mostly due to the all-inclusive holiday market seeing steady growth and the number of operators providing packages for Turkey. However, it\u2019s not only the Brits who enjoy Turkey\u2019s beach holidays, the Mediterranean nation expects its tourism sector to expand by more than 12% between 2010 and 2013, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ertugrul Gunay, said \u201cTurkish tourism has been a spectacular success this year and the future remains bright, with visitor numbers continuing to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He may well be right, as the nation\u2019s largest city, Istanbul, was voted European Capital of Culture during 2010.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>PRWeb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK weather is rapidly becoming colder and UK residents may be thinking of embarking on a short break during the upcoming winter season. Turkish beaches seem to be at the very top of the destinations list for such breaks during 2010. According to new figures released by UK market research agency, GfK, Brits embarking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":24129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846,1094,89,94,922],"tags":[3820,9732],"class_list":["post-24128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-tourism","category-turkey","category-uk","category-world","tag-travel-turkey","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}