Since the 1980′s Turkey’s tourism industry has grown from 1.2 million annual visits to more than 26.4 million in 2005.

The explosive growth has lead the state to continue aggressively investing in tourism infrastructure in a bid to becoming a world leader.

In doing so, along the way, it is spending considerable amountsof of capital to improve ski resorts, and its winter infrastructure to the level of Courchevel and Val d’Isere in Europe. The rate of development is quite simply appalling.

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