Antalya Aquarium raise its sights in 2023

İsmail Arık, General Manager of Antalya Aquarium, that is the world's largest tunnel aquarium, said that 16 million tourists are targeted by the end of 2023 in Antalya,which is  one of the world's most important tourism destinations.

İsmail Arık, General Manager of Antalya Aquarium, who spoke at the panel titled 'Burada Turizm Çok' organized by Tourism Journal, which brings close together the tourism industry, stated that they are getting ready to host 900 thousand guests in 2023.

 Antalya Aquarium, General Manager Arık said,“We are in the city center of Antalya, on  Konyaaltı beach, 70 meters from the sea. Due to its location, we are located at one of the easiest points of the city to be reached by public transportation . Antalya Aquarium has the “world's largest aquarium tunnel”. In this rare Aquarium with 3 meters diameter  where where five people can easily walk together  and it has a view that you can watch sea creatures on the three sides through 131 meters . He added Our main tank, where our tunnel is located, is 1500 square meters, containing 5.8 million liters of water, and it has a very natural environment for the creatures that it hosts.”

250 AQUATIC SPECIES LIVE TOGETHER

İsmail Arık informed that they host more than 10 thousand aquatic creatures of 250 different species, and he added  “Our name is Antalya Aquarium, but we are not a business  taht only consists of aquariums. We have entertainment and resting atmosphere with 3 floors in 30.000 metre square and in 12.500 metre square closed are we have restaurants, cefes by the pool, beeswax museum and 1200 metre square Wild Park reptiles are, our Snow World – 5 celcius degree even In the heat of 50 degrees Antalya.

WE TARGET 900.000 GUESTS

İsmail Arık stated that they hosted 800 thousand guests in 2022 and that they will increase this  to 900 thousand in 2023, “In 2022, 13 million 508 thousand tourists from 186 countries landed at Antalya international airport. We are very pleased about the interest of our citizens in the country. One third of our guests consist of local people  from  and Turkish people who spend their holidays in Antalya. If you ask  about the year 2023; Tourism is a setting a goal and planning industry. Our operators and travel agencies set targets for the next year, and they  make hotel plans, create tour packages and prepare their promotions, and make vehicle and personnel agreements such as planes, buses, minibuses, etc.

Arık continued  as follows: “We get stonger with the plans that are made by these brave teams. When we compiled the interviews we made one by one during these planning studies, which started in October, November 2022, we reached 16 million foreign guests for 2023. Over time, we have heard studies and statements  that confirm this figure. Antalya Tourism knows how to set realistic goals and has the enthusiasm to realize the goals it has set. Although the war in Russia and the earthquake disaster in 2023 caused a pause, the target of 16 million and more tourists in 2023 is a realistic target for Antalya. As Antalya Aquarium, we are planning to have 900 thousand guests .”