Denizli to promote its healing red water
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Doğan News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Nisan 10, 2009 00:00
DENİZLİ - Hoping to promote the red thermal water of Karahayıt, the authorities in the Aegean province of Denizli are trying to open a curing center in the area.
In order to complete the legal work to set up the center, 26,000 square meters of field, which was previously owned by the National Treasury, was consigned to the Special Provincial Administration, an important step to turn the area into a tourism spot. The Special Provincial Administration started the project with the help of Pamukkale University and tourism managers.
Governor Yavuz Erkmen believes that Denizli has serious tourism potential, but complains that most of the tourists do not stay in the city for long times and pass to the hotter tourism spots near.
Tourism potential
"Last year more than 1.8 million tourists came to Denizli, but most of those tourists leave the city after one night," said Erkmen. "Step by step we need to save Denizli tourism from one-night stays and should benefit from thermal tourism potential."
"With the help of thermal tourism, we may increase that one-day stay to 10 or 15 days," he said.
Erkmen said they were in talks with international health insurance companies.
"We will ask the companies to suggest people go to Denizli for health treatment," he said.
Those efforts came a few months after the forming of the association called Karahayıt Thermal Tourism Promotion Association, or TETUDER, whose aim is to develop thermal tourism in the town with promotions.
Alpaslan Albay, president of TETUDER, said they want to introduce Turkey's thermal resources to Europeans, as Turkey is also a candidate member to the union.
"In recent years, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has begun to take promotion of the country's thermal resources seriously and has taken steps to develop thermal tourism in Turkey," said Albay.
Governor Yavuz Erkmen believes that Denizli has serious tourism potential, but complains that most of the tourists do not stay in the city for long times and pass to the hotter tourism spots near.
Tourism potential
"Last year more than 1.8 million tourists came to Denizli, but most of those tourists leave the city after one night," said Erkmen. "Step by step we need to save Denizli tourism from one-night stays and should benefit from thermal tourism potential."
"With the help of thermal tourism, we may increase that one-day stay to 10 or 15 days," he said.
Erkmen said they were in talks with international health insurance companies.
"We will ask the companies to suggest people go to Denizli for health treatment," he said.
Those efforts came a few months after the forming of the association called Karahayıt Thermal Tourism Promotion Association, or TETUDER, whose aim is to develop thermal tourism in the town with promotions.
Alpaslan Albay, president of TETUDER, said they want to introduce Turkey's thermal resources to Europeans, as Turkey is also a candidate member to the union.
"In recent years, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has begun to take promotion of the country's thermal resources seriously and has taken steps to develop thermal tourism in Turkey," said Albay.