The 2016 cruise season opened in Antalya with the Aida Aura liner with 1300 passengers on board.

The luxury cruise ship Aida Aura recently opened the tourist season in Turkey. The liner stopped at the Mediterranean port of Antalya with 1300 passengers on board, who stayed off the coast of the resort for the whole day.On the way to Antalya, the ship Aida Aura had already stopped in Haifa, Limassol, Piraeus. On the morning of April 1, it was in the port of Rhodes in the Mediterranean Sea, and then it was already cruising to the coast of Antalya. The port of Akdeniz greeted the liner warmly, as Turkey is an important component in the Mediterranean cruise tourism segment.Antalya expects about fifty thousand passenger cruise ships in 2016. It is worth noting that several routes were cancelled due to terrorist attacks in some cities of the eastern country, but there is hope that this decision is only temporary. The Turkish government expects that through cruise tourism it will be possible to attract more vacationers to the country, as it is quite a popular type of recreation among modern travelers.