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I'm from Belgium and here, Antalya is a well known destination for holidays. Popular for a summer holiday, but also in springtime or fall. It is a cheap destination with all-inclusive formula. Especially popular amongst young families or retirees. Or people with no inspiration of where to go...
25 years ago, people went to Benidorm or lloret de Mar (Spain, now they go to Antalya. (or Bodrum, Kusadasi, Kemer, Side...)
How did you never hear of it?
It's one of the most popular summer holiday destinations for Europeans.
Still shocks me that it beats cities like NYC, HK and Singapore tho.
I supposed it would be comparable to Europeans never having heard of
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Branson, Missouri
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Yosemite, California.
Not sure if all those people really visit Antalya, or rather visit one of thousands of hotel resorts around there. Many of them have probably never been to Antalya city. AYT airport has 22 mln passengers a year, which is quite a lot for such a small city.
And be careful about:
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It was the world's third most visited cityby number of international arrivals in 2011, displacing New York, and had a population of 1,001,318
Actually I think NYC also have millions of national visitors from the U.S.
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I supposed it would be comparable to Europeans never having heard of
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Branson, Missouri
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Yosemite, California.
Yosemite is extremely well advertised, it's on virtually every tour covering that part of California and many outside the US can notice El Capitan, the falls etc. Not to mention Yosemite Sam.
I have read that Rimini, in northeast Italy, is the most popular beach in all Europe. Yet I would venture that very few Americans, even well-read worldly ones, have ever heard of the place.
If you can't point out Michigan on a map then you just suck at topography.
That's fine, but I bet most people outside of USA wouldn't be able to know where it is. Whether that means they suck or not means nothing to me.
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