Marinas in Turkey

Turkey is surrounded by sea to three sides, and has a coastline of over 8000 kilometres in length. One of the bestways to see Turkey is from the deck of a boat, where you can lie back and watch the beautiful scenery, stopping off as the fancy takes you to explore a historic site or visit a charming village.

Turkey boasts of increasingly favored ports of call for international and local yachtsmen. The country's popularity is certainly advantaged by her spectacular coastal straits, a past noted for the rich sea-faring literature, some of whose references are part of the everyday culture, as is the case for the Blue Cruise (a.k.a. Blue Voyage ("Mavi Yolculuk" in Turkish) is a term used for recreational boating tours along Turkey's southwestern coasts), and the search for the Golden Fleece. In recent years, modern infrastructure and facilities that are considered as requirements for nautical tourism are also being developed with increasing rapidity and sophistication, catering a whole range of services commonly expected by visitors. Modern services geared to recreational boating reaches back to more than three decades in Turkey and considerable momentum has been accumulated in terms of infrastructure, know-how and human resources, promising a still more active future for the business. Prominent Turkish private sector groups view marinas as an attractive investment that also enhances their prestige, thus have built or acquired one to include in their overall portfolio.