Turkey is a country of many rich and interesting contrast which give it the potential for a large profitable tourist,
industry; it has much to offer both the sophisticated traveller and the package tourist. The Mediterranean Coast is warm and offers swimming and sailing, the mountains of the Marmara region and central Anatolia offer winter skiing, and the rich cultural heritage from the Hittite, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires provides
 many archaeological , historical and religious attractions.
   However, the development of Turkey's large tourism potential has made slow progress and the country has taken
 only a small fraction of the growth progress in the tourism that has occurred in the Mediterranean in the last 20 years.
 There are fewer serviceable tourist bedrooms in the whole of Turkey than there are on the island of Rhodes alone.
In 1980, the size of Turkey's tourism industry, as measured by tourist nights, was 1.1 million, where as for Spaint
it was 62 million, Greece 29 million and Yugoslavia 20 million, and the situation has changed little since.
   Until the Third Five Year Development Olan, 1973 - 77, tourism was given a relatively low priority. The Tourism Bank
 was created in 1955 but, with limited funds, was not able to make much of a contribution to the development of the industry.
   In the First Plan 1963 - 67, tourism was barely mentioned apart from a brief reference to the need to increase the
credit facilities of the Tourism Bank and the importance of good communications, the raining of personnel and
promotional measures.
   The Second Plan 1968 - 72 added little, other than making the distinction between public and private responsibilities and drawing attention to the value of institution physical planning to regulate development.

Tourism Statistics for 1985

Foreign Tourists
   1,625.099 foreigners visited Turkey in 1983, 2.117.094, and 2.614.924 in 1985. The increase for 1985 was 23.5 %
over 1984 ( Table 1 )
   In 1985 1.70.333 foreigners camo to Turkey, by road ,968.363 by air, 53.549 by rail, and 522.679 by sea. Expressed in
 percentages, this was 44.8 % by road, 33.2 % by air, 2 % by rail, and 20 % by sea. ( Table 2 )
   778.706 people entered Turkey at the Edirne border post 736.874 at Istanbul, 203.306 at Aydın, 170.817 at Izmir,
 80.272 at Hatay, 234.031 at Ağrı, 42.497 at Ankara, 76.698 at Gaziantep and 291.723 at other border posts. In percentage
 terms this was 28.2 % Istanbul, 29.9 % Edirne, 7.8 % Aydın, 3.1 % Hatay, 6.5 % Izmir, 8.9 % Agrı, 1.6 % Ankara,
2.9 % Gaziantep, and 11.2 % other posts.

Exist of Turkish Nationals
   In 1983, 1.998.162 Turkish nationals went abroad, in 1984 2.071.189 and in 1985 1.808.298 representing an increase of
3.7 % in 1984 and a decrease of 12.7 % in 1985.

Tourism Revenues and Expenditure Revenues
   Tourism revenues totalled $ 257.000.000 in the first eleven months of 1984 and $ 296.200.000 over the same period in 1985,
 representing an increase of 15.3 %.

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Satellite Ground Station, Gölbaşı – ANKARA