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It was the night of 8th of September 2023, around 23.30. I have long since aiming to walk the urban culture route carried out by İzmit Municipality. A friend of mine who loves walking came to my mind. I went on calling her at once: Me: Hi, how are you? My friend: Fine, how about…

The academic council of the Sultans Trail organised a symposium titled ‘Close Encounters of East and West’ in the Hodshon Huis, Haarlem, on August 26th 2022. Before the conference, guests gathered for a short boat trip on the canals of Haarlem, followed by a pleasant meal in a charming old pub. The conference venue is…

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The School of Tourism of Antalya’s Bilim University will have a new course on Cultural Routes as part of its Spring 2022 semester curriculum. Here is the message from Dinç Saraç, a member of the school: ‘Tourism education should be dynamic and receptive to change; on the back of basic theoretical, technical and operational topics,…

Second phase of our VOYN! project, which is a local culture hub under the “VAHA: Building Common Ground for Spaces of Public Discussion & Dialogue” programme, has just started in the last months. We aim to chase the rural cultural heritage of the Antalya region via several activities; and this year we have an international…

The Anatolian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage project, funded by the EU and with the partnership of WEGlobal, Gaziantep Greater City Council and he Culture and Tourism Ministry, held a conference to mark the formation of the institute of the same name. The institute is designed to bring together the works of the Turkish archaological schools…

I’m a friend of Ueli Aellig from Switzerland and a fellow teacher at a Business School here in Winterthur. Ueli has passed away on October 6th after a short time in the Alzheimer section of an Old Folks Home. Remembering him in a ceremony on November 15th I will tell the people about the great time…

The Fethiye Times recently published a report (link) on proposed quarries close to the village of Sidyma, on the Lycian Way. Villagers have started to sell land at Alınca and Gey and new house-building is underway. Seydikemer forestry department’s proposed road to Cennet Plaj (Paradise Beach), but was stopped because it threatened the historical road…

As the whole world knows, the G7 summit of leaders of the world’s 7 capitalist countries took place in Cornwall, in the UK in June. To complement this, and remind the world of the importance of trails, the World Trails Network partnered with the Southwest Coastal Trail to hold a short on-line conference about the…

I continue to work on cultural routes not only in the field but also in the academia. I have prepared resources for both tourist guides to specialize in this field and for guide candidates to have information about cultural routes. In addition, there are many academic papers related to cultural routes in the world  very…

Faralya Nature Tourism Development Society FARDER, has submitted a project for the gelecekturizmde grant program, funded by Anadolu Efes and managed by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and UNDP.  The title of the project is Faralya – Yediburun – Eco-tourism Development project, and it concerns spreading the good practises developed in Faralya along the Lycian…

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