Dalaman is one of the ultimate Turkey property hotspots, well it has to be: Dalaman is the reason why Turkey overtook Spain as the top tourism destination for British travellers in 2008.
What? I hear you ask. No, of course it didn’t really. See what happened was (read in Devonshire accent and sound like British hit comedian Jethro), a member of ABTA published the top 10 destinations for British travellers in 2008, and Dalaman was in first place. Because of this and the accompanying press reports, the mistake was made that Turkey was the top destination for British travellers.
I found this out when I called ABTA in late 2009 after the report remerged. ABTA confirmed that British visitors to Turkey in 2008 was about 2 million, while Spain received 11 million visitors. They did say that Spain was now stagnant while Turkey was growing at 20-25 percent per year.
Anyway, digression over the important thing here is that Dalaman was the most popular destination for British travellers in 2008, if anyone has figures for 2009 we’d love to see them. There is however no indication that it would have shrunk, while the increase in new flights to Dalaman international airport is an indication that it would have grown.
Being a tourism driven market, this is a massive highlighter to the waves of young investors and holiday home investors to choose Dalaman property to make their Turkish property investment.
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