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"Passenger numbers through the Antalya airport are up around 10% compared to last year according to recent data. According to the data from the Antalya Culture and Tourism Office, 9,165,000 passengers landed at the airport in the first 10 months of this year, compared to 8,256,000 passengers who flew into the airport in the first 10 months of 2009.
An incredible growth overall, the biggest growth by country was in British passengers, which increase 35% compared to last year. The growth looks set to continue, especially with Antalya stands booked at over 100 international tourism exhibitions and shows around the world next year.
This is all during an international recession, and one of the worst times on record for international travel. The Antalya property market will continue to be among the biggest benefactors of the massive and growing popularity of Antalya as a tourist destination.
Rising tourism and passenger numbers will not go unnoticed by the aviation industry, which will continue to increase the number of routes and flights to and from Antalya from around the world, because the UK saw the biggest growth, we can expect it to feature heaviliy in the expanded coverage and increased accessibility.
Increasing accessibility will in turn bring about further increases in tourism. The result of this will be growth in tourism revenues, and a subsequent increase in the spending power of the Antalya authorities, who will have more to spend on marketing and infrastructure developments to further increase tourism. Thus maintaining a self-fuelling and self-perpetuating cycle of growth.
We all know why this is good news for the Antalya property market:
A tourism fuelled market, Antalya property is most frequently purchased by holiday home buyers and holiday home investors. Most buyers of Antalya holiday homes are people who have fallen in love with the place on holiday, thus, more tourists today equals more holiday home sales tomorrow. Meanwhile holiday home investors see and benefit from increasing tourism as increasing occupancy and rental yields.
