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With the approach of summer, vacation plans begin. Aegean and Mediterranean beaches are the first address of holidaymakers who count the days to meet the sun after a long winter. While tourism professionals say that the demand for charter yachts is high this summer, market forecasts from the world confirm them. The global yacht industry is expected to reach $15 billion by 2027.

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ISTANBUL (TR) - Tourism professionals expect an active season in 2022, after two years of stagnation in the sector with the pandemic. After the prolonged winter fatigue, with the sun showing its face, holiday plans are on the agenda, and tourism professionals are starting to gather demand, especially for the period after Eid al-Adha.

Stating that the global yacht market is expected to grow by an average of 4.6% every year and reach $15 billion by 2027, the founder of the travel agency Bugün Nereye Gidelim, İlker Kulaksız, said, “Our country, surrounded by seas on three sides, is the gateway to both domestic and foreign tourists with its unique coastline.” He continued his words: “We have high expectations from yacht tourism this year. Compared to 2021, we observe an increase in yacht charter demands. We foresee that the activity that will start in May in our country, one of the important centers of yacht tourism, will increase domestic tourists, especially after the Eid al-Adha.

Yacht trend of summer 2022 gulet and motor yachts

Pointing out that some of the regions where yacht tourism has developed in Turkey have come to the fore this season, İlker Kulaksız said, “We left behind two stagnant summer seasons globally and in Turkey. Based on our demands, we think that 2022 will be colorful, especially in terms of yacht tourism. Göcek, Bozburun, Fethiye, Bodrum, Marmaris, Kaş and Datça, which are the leading points of yacht tourism in our country, are already in high demand. In particular, the demands for gulets and motor yachts are higher.”

Russian yachts will activate our yacht tourism

İlker Kulaksız, the Founder of Bugün Nereye Gidelim, stated that not only the yachts that were chartered or bought but also those that came to Turkey from different countries were influential behind the momentum of yacht tourism, and said: Especially as a result of the sanctions imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many yachts belonging to Russian citizens came to Bodrum and Marmaris, and anchored. Last month, Roman Abramovich's 600 million dollar yacht My Solaris entered Bodrum, and the 700 million dollars Russian yacht Eclipse entered Marmaris waters. We think that its mobility will increase even more and that the summer season will last longer this year, especially on the seas.”