Istanbul is Yours and Tourism is Your Future
Vision: A culture-oriented and sustainable tourism that preserves and strengthens its original, cultural and natural values; diversifies alternative tourism types and professionalized at all levels competes with the world and integrates with its inhabitants.
Number Of Tourists Visiting Istanbul:
2019 : 14.906.633
2024 : 17.000.000 (Goal)
Length Of Accommodation In Istanbul:
2019: 2.6 days
2024: 5 days (Goal)
Average Tourist Spendings Per Person:
2019: 457 USD
2024: 1200 USD (Goal)
Targets:
- Increasing the duration of stay at the accommodation facilities in Istanbul
- To increase the average tourist spending per person
- Increasing the diversity of urban experiences
- Spreading tourism activity across the metropol
- Diversifying tourism types
- Increasing accessibility to Istanbul and within Istanbul
- To Increase service quality
- Increase the quality of the existing bed capacity
- To give priority to the development of 3-star hotels and boutique hotels
- Augmenting tourism information offices and strengthening tourism agencies
- To develop participatory and transparent management models to manage the tourism sector
- Increasing the capacity of citizen investments in the sector
- Increasing the citizens’ ability to use tourism opportunities
- Not reflecting the negative externalities arising from the developments in the sector to the urban population
- While developing tourism in areas with unique cultural and natural values, not to exclude local people and prevent their alienation
- To ensure that local people perceive, adopt and develop the natural and cultural values in their environment
- To ensure the preservation and continuity of the original characters in the places that have the function of tourism.