 The Karaburun Peninsula is a fine example of an area where a large range of Anatolian Civilizations prospered. Starting from pre-historical time, when the first settlements were established, the peninsula has been stage to a number of mythological stories as well as the place where, during the Ancient Period, important civilizations founded their cities, thus leaving an important cultural heritage.
The peninsula has a very important tourism potential, since it owns all advantages required by modern tourism demands. The fact that the region is not as much visited like other tourism areas, has often lead to the presumption that the Karaburun Peninsula lacks importance for the tourism sector. However, we at Karaburun are aware of the wide range of possibilities and attractions the peninsula has and which meet nearly all facets and requirements of new tourism concepts.
Even countries having substantial incomes from mass tourism, are more and more looking for alternatives and solutions for the reparation of the hazardous effects of this kind of tourism. Precisely this evolution on the tourism market is offering the Karaburun Peninsula a bigger opportunity.
During the last decade, an important shift has been recorded regarding the types of demands and offers in the tourism business. The “sun, sea and sand” combined with artificial entertainment and small tour formula is increasingly abandoned. The modern tourist is eager to learn more about the country, the region, the people, their culture and the way they are living. Spending your holiday in a five-stars hotels or vacation villages with the same decoration, programs, food and even name as anywhere else in the world, and where very often the tourist spends his vacation without even getting out of the hotel or vacation village, is not the trend any more.
Nowadays this kind of mass tourism is making rapidly room for alternative tourism. This is precisely the point where the chance of the Karaburun Peninsula lays. With its splendid nature, its genuine and unspoiled people as well as its millennium old cultural patchwork, the Karaburun Peninsula is one of the most promising candidates to this new tourism concept.
The Karaburun Peninsula has the potential to meet nearly all conditions to various models of alternative tourism, such as sea and underwater activities, trekking, mountain biking, mountaineering, eco- and agro-tourism in the villages and many more. By applying the right policies and getting the necessary support, the local authorities, together with the people of Karaburun, can make a world known area of the Karaburun Peninsula
In short, one can say that the tourist value of the Karaburun Peninsula lays in itself, its nature and its people. |
