Omer Niziplioglu, head of the Tourism Development Commission of Hatay province, said that Hatay should be turned into another tourist city of the Mediterranean by building hundreds of hotels approximately between Samandag and Arsuz.
Recall that Hatay is being actively restored after the province suffered as a result of the earthquake in Kahramanmarash. And when the work is completed, the local authorities are thinking of turning Hatay into a new "place of attraction" for tourists. By erecting dozens of hotels, opening shopping streets, etc. After all, Hatay is already a significant cultural and partly tourist center; so, the plan is quite real, it only needs careful study and planning.
But the quantity and quality of local accommodation facilities are not quite up to par, and does not fully meet the needs of tourists accustomed to resort towns. However, Omer Niziplioglu believes that after the implementation of a number of necessary studies, there "... may be a great potential for tourism."
Hatay is the southernmost province of Turkey: the most multicultural, but at the same time quite rarely visited by travelers. It is located mainly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. It borders Syria to the south and east, the Turkish province of Adana to the northwest, and Gaziantep to the northeast.
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