Tura Turizm is both an incoming and outgoing Tour Operator cooperating with various agencies and travel network services. It provides services for various different tour operators and travel agencies in 28 countries around the globe.

It has a long past dating back to the period when tourism started to take shape in Turkey as part of State policies in the agenda of the Turkish Governments during the second half of the past century.

Since 1985, the Company is functioning as a Travel Agency as well as a Tour Operator. Today the agency has expanded itself with its 56 personnel and three offices in Turkey and three offices abroad.

Tura Turizm has grown up rapidly and became one of the leading agencies of the sector with its network of offices within Turkey, handling a significant volume of incoming traffic from about 30 different countries among which are countries such as U.S.A, England, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Romania, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Slovenia and China.

The main focus is on cruise and the agency has organized a special department for shore excursions and developed its services since 42 years in shore excursions.

Some ome of the cruise Companies that Tura Turizm is in cooperation with are as follows Royal Caribbean Cruises, Celebrity Cruise Lines,Azamara Cruises, Orient Lines, NCL, Pullman Cruceros, Carnival UK, P & O Cruises, Cunard, Ocean Village, Louis Hellenic Cruises, Easy Cruises.

Company has provided shore excursion services for up to 2,7 million visitors since 1966 until today. This experience has been the basic power of the Company’s success in shore excursions. The Company seeks innovations and tries to go beyond cliché tours. With its guest service improvements and innovative ideas the Company has been the pioneer in the different fields of tourism.

Tura Turizm is:
* The First cruise ship builder and owner (M/V TURA) chartered by Voyages Jules Verne.
* First Cruise-ship refurbishment and management company in Turkey.

(M/V AKDENIZ) chartered by Phoenix Reisen for two years.
* The First Ferry boat owner (AVRASYA) operated between Venice-Kuşadası and then between Trabzon-Sochi (Black Sea).
* First 5 star investment and refurbishment of a historical building from 19th century (RAMADA HOTEL).
* First Special Category Hotel Owner, refurbished as an Ottoman house from 16th century.
* First Cruise Port Development Project Creator, in cooperation with RCCL at the Port of Kuşadası which is realized in 2002.
These few examples of the “Firsts” amount to 39 pioneers in the field of tourism.
The Company has recently restructured itself in Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania while organizing its branch offices in İzmir, Antalya, Marmaris and Bodrum.

As far as outgoing services are concerned, Tura Turizm expertise in cruise programs within Aegean and Mediterranean Seas as well as the Volga River and China river cruises. The annual cruise passenger volume is nearly 10.000 guests.

The president of the company Mr.Erkun Öner, is a regular participant in SEA TRADE Conventions and has been lecturer on Cruise Geography, Seasonality in the Mediterranean as well as on Security and Safety of Cruise Passengers in various Sea Trade Conferences.