I have chosen to cover Alanya first because it isn’t a hotspot yet, but boy is it looking likely to be.
Alanya has the largest population of British expatriates in the world, where they are joined by fellow expatriates from nations throughout Europe and the World, and tourists from the four corners of Turkey and other short-haul destinations.
The key words in that paragraph are: expatriates, and short-haul. That is because the nearest airport to Alanya was Antalya over an hour away. While Antalya airport is one of the best served in Turkey, no one wants to travel for an hour on foreign public transport or a hire car, in the searing heat, (and for those in hire cars unknown roads) after travelling several hours on a plane (4 approx depending on which UK airport you depart from).
Thus, those who are within short-haul flight distance, and expats have flocked to the undiscovered beauty of Alanya. Well, guess what, it is about to be discovered. The long-controversial Gazipasa airport just a few minutes from Alanya began serving the domestic route to and from Istanbul last month.
Many people thought that the airport would never actually open, even when current operators TAV started running test flights still people were dubious. Now that the airport is receiving and sending passengers, we can believe a lot more readily the statements from TAV that international flights will follow next year, once the runway expansion work is completed.
Alanya with its own international airport will be an almost unstoppable force. I would even go so far as to predict its being one of the great success stories of the 2011/12 fiscal year and beyond.
Watch this space for news on new Alanya property developments, new flights, and much more as the market hots up.
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