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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Click to read the full press release in pdf format. PRESS RELEASE Certifying and Promoting a Cultural Route Between Europe and Turkey Turkey’s Culture Routes Society (CRS), an NGO that was founded to develop, maintain and promote cultural routes in Turkey, is preparing to apply to the Council of Europe to obtain certification for the…
The Forestry Ministry and National Parks management held a 2-day eco-tourism conference at the Maritime Pine hotel in Belek on 9th-10th April. Also invited were several university professors with expertise in tourism, geography… etc, as well as the representatives of several NGO’s – of these, the WWF was represented by Eray Çağlayan, Doğa Koruma Merkezi…
The Management committee met in Impact Hub, Istanbul, on 11th January. As well as the current updates on the society’s activities, upcoming EU projects were also evaluated with the participation of the trail representatives who are likely to get involved. One of these projects is the continuation of our previous EU project named ‘Europe to…
A comprehensive training targeting various groups and professional disciplines was held in Antakya between 21-24 February within the scope of ‘the KORU Project’. The project is carried out in Mardin and Antakya by the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in cooperation with Edinburgh World Heritage , supported by the British Council under the Cultural Conservation Fund….
At the annual conference of the European Institute of Cultural Routes in Görlitz, the Council of Europe announced the ongoing programme to promote the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe in four different regions of eastern and south-eastern Europe. These are: Baltic Sea; Danube Basin; Alpine and Adriatic – Ionian areas. The last group, also…