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yachtmen have finally managed to find themselves new coasts
in the Eastern Mediterranean which are both economic and
lovely (Dogan, 1990).
2.2 Mediterranean Yacht Tourism
Most popular cruising areas in the Mediterranean are as follows:
- Sardinia and Corsica Island (Bonifacio Straits)
- Dalmatian Coasts in Yugoslavia
- Greek Islands: The Saronic Gulf, The Sporades, The
Ionian Islands
- Turkish coast (Lycian and Karian coasts)
According to obtained data, there are 311.000 mooring capacity
at the 711 marinas on the Mediterranean countries also include
Turkey. Most popular cruising areas in the World can be seen in
Figure 1 (DTO, 2003).
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2.3 Turkish Yacht Tourism
Yacht tourism in Turkey began with France and Greek charter
operations. At the same time, our intellectuals made journeys by
local boats and called journeys as ‘Blue Voyage’. The concept
started back in 1980's and really took of in 1983 after the
acceptence of new law with the specific objectives of regulating
and promoting yacht tourisim: construction new marinas,
renovating and improving existing ones and encouraging yacht
charter services in Turkey.
According to Table 1, The number of foreign tourist rised to
13,2 million in 2002. But the number of tourist visits to the
Turkey by using air and sea transportation moved backward
34,7% (www.turizm.gov.tr).
; Tourist Number| TOTAL
YEARS using Maritime | TOURIST RATE
2001 1.137.365 11.618.969 9,8
2002 742.507 13.246.875 5,6
2003 - 14.029.558 -
2004 (first 3 month) - 1.924.877 -
Table 1. The Number of Tourists Visit to Turkey
2.4 Yacht Harbour
Marinas are most important substructure for Yacht Tourism.
Marinas are divided safety sea areas in which yachtmen can
moor, maintain their own yacht, go on shopping, take a bath,
wash clothes, pump in oil, eat, drink, communicate, etc. A well-
equipped marina should give these services to yachtmen and
other customer.
2.4.1 Yacht Harbour in the World: At the coastal region of
France, there are 261 marinas which has 145.000 mooring
capacity. Also, there are 9000 mooring capacity at the 35
marinas on the rivers. Germany has a 750 km coastline,
although the short summer season, there are 100.000 mooring
hulls at the marinas. The number of hull about 280.000 is
available on the 800 marinas in Holland. The coastal region of
Belgium has 4000 mooring capacity on the 8 marinas. The
number of halls in the U.K. is 220.000. 14.000 marinas of the
World through about 20.000 marinas and 4 millions halls of 6,5
millions halls are in U.S.A. (Dagci, 2002).
2.4.2 Marinas of The Turkey: The Mediterranean, Aegean
and the Black Seas, as well as the Sea of Marmara, surround
Turkey to the north, west and south. With over 8333 kilometers
of coatline, Turkey has beautiful gulfs, ^ bays
(www.akdeniz.edu.tr).
Turkey's most established marinas lie on southern Aegean and
Mediterranean coasts at, Cesme, Kusadasi, Bodrum, Datca,
Bozburun, Marmaris, Gocek, Fethiye, Kalkan, Kas, Finike,
Kemer and Antalya. In these well equipped harbours, yachters
can find the services.
In Turkey, there are 15 marinas, are shown in Table 2, have the
certificate of Tourism Administration and 10 marinas, are
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shown in Table 3, have the certificate of Tourism Investment
(DTO, 2003).
Nameof |Kind of Marina City Capacity
Marina sea | land
Setur Kusadasi [Main Marina Kusadasi/Aydin | 310 | -
Marina
Atakoy Subordinate M. |Atakoy/Istanbul | 700 | 40
Marina
Akdeniz Subordinate M. |Kemer/Antalya 150 | 150
Kemer Marina
Kale ici MarinaBerthing Places |Kale ici/Antalya | 90 | -
Altin yunus Subordinate M. |Cesme/Izmir 90 | 60
Marina
Ata bay Tur. |Parking Ashore |Gebze/Kocaeli - | 60
Amiral Fahri |Subordinate M. |Fenerbahce/Istanb| 558 | -
Koruturk ul
Marina
Marmaris Main Marina Marmaris/Mugla | 676 | 122
Marina
Club Marina __|Berthing Places |Gocek/Mugla 1214 -
Setur Antalya [Subordinate M. |Antalya 169 | 290
Marina
Ayvalik Parking Ashore |Ayvalik/Balikesir| - | 140
Marina
Sun Marina [Parking Ashore |Marmaris/Mugla | - | 100
Ayvalik Subordinate M. |Ayvalik/Balikesir| 100 | -
Marina
Kumlu buku |Berthing Places |Marmaris/Mugla | 10 | -
Yacht Club
Albatros Parking Ashore |Marmaris/Mugla | 40 | 48
SUBTOTAL | - 30141010
TOTAL - - 4024
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Table 2. Marinas have the Certificate of Tourism
Administration in Turkey.
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