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This 11 page paper examines Turkey as a tourist destination. The paper starts by considering the importance of tourism to the country and then looking at a number of places of historical interest including the Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya), The Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), Dolmabahçe Palace, Troy, Aphrodisias, Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Safranbolu, Mount Nemrut, Halil Rahman Mosque, The Temple of Artemisat at Ephesus, The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Bodrum, and finally The House of The Virgin Mary. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEturkeyt.rtf
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is the need to encourage tourism to help bring in the foreign money to the economy to help stimulate the economy as a whole. In 1985 Turley saw 1.5 million
visitors; by 2002 this had increased to 13 million visitors, the income created increased from US $400 million to US $8.5 billion (Sezer, 2004). 2004 was projected at seeing 17
million visitors and the growth is expected to carry on, with the World Tourism Organisation projecting 25 million visitors by 2020 bring in $22 billion and increased the share of
the world tourist market to 2.5% of that market (Sezer, 2004). The level of importance is high, but the potential is also high despite the fact that due to a
range of factors, such as political difficulties and the perception of security, the country has constantly missed its own tourism targets (Sezer, 2004). If we look at the country and
see all it has to offer, this goes deeper that sun and sand, giving it the potential to cater for a larger number of tourists. Looking at Turkey it has
many of the facilities that attract tourists. Turkey is situated between Europe and South Western Asia. The Mediterranean sea is to the south and the Black Sea is to
the north (CIA, 2005). The majority of the country is geographically in Asia, where, to the east there are land boarders with Syria, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Georgia (CIA,
2005). To the very Eastern part of the country is Mount Ararat, the highest point in the country (CIA, 2005). The Bosporus separates the country, to the east of the
Bosporus the land is geographically in Europe; this is a smaller part of the country and boarders with Greece and Bulgaria (CIA, 2005). The current country was formed
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