Yacht Tourism Will Rise in 2022

With the approach of summer, vacation plans begin. Aegean and Mediterranean beaches are the first address of holidaymakers who count the days to meet the sun after a long winter. While tourism professionals say that the demand for charter yachts is high this summer, market forecasts from around the world confirm them. The global yacht industry is expected to reach a value of $2027 billion by 15.

Tourism professionals expect an active season in 2, after 2022 years of stagnation in the sector with the pandemic. With the sun showing its face after a long winter fatigue, holiday plans are on the agenda, and tourism professionals are starting to gather demand, especially for the period after Eid al-Adha.

Saying that the global yacht market is expected to grow by an average of 2027% each year to reach $4,6 billion by 15, the founder of the travel agency Where to Go Today, İlker Kulaksız said, “Our country, surrounded by seas on three sides, is the gateway to both domestic and foreign tourists with its unique coastline He continued his words as follows: “We have high expectations from yacht tourism this year. Compared to 2021, we see an increase in yacht charter demands. We foresee that the activity that will start in May in our country, which is one of the important centers of yacht tourism, will increase in terms of domestic tourists, especially after the Eid al-Adha.

Yacht trend of summer 2022 gulet and motor yachts

Ilker Kulaksız, who stated that some regions where yacht tourism developed in Turkey came to the fore this season, said, “We left behind two stagnant summer seasons both globally and in Turkey. Based on the demands we have received, we think that 2022 will be colorful especially in terms of yacht tourism. Göcek, Bozburun, Fethiye, Bodrum, Marmaris, Kaş and Datça, which are the leading points of yacht tourism in our country, are already in high demand. In particular, the demands for gulets and motor yachts are higher.”

Russian yachts will activate our yacht tourism

İlker Kulaksız, the Founder of Where to Go Today, stated that not only the yachts that were chartered or purchased but also those that came to Turkey from different countries were influential behind the momentum of yacht tourism, and said: The yacht came to Bodrum and Marmaris and anchored. Last month, Roman Abramovic's yacht My Solaris, worth 600 million dollars, entered Bodrum, and the Russian yacht Eclipse, worth 700 million dollars, entered Marmaris waters. We think that its mobility will increase even more and that the summer season will last longer this year, especially in the seas.”