The Cheapest Places on Earth: Turkey
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, March, 1998 by Tom Brosnahan
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The discovery of Turkey by international tourists is an event of the most recent vintage. As if awakening from a slumber, the world learned in the 1970s that (surprise!) Turkey had Troy, Ephesus, Angora, Cappadocia, Pergamon - more ancient Greek and Roman ruins than Greece and Israel combined-as well as 5,000 miles of saltwater coastline, craggy mountains, charming villages, some of the tastiest food in the world, and friendly people who like hosting American visitors.
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For the past decade in particular, Turkey has had the fastest tourism development of any country in the world. And yet, despite the flood of visitors, it remains one of the best value-for-money destinations of all. Why? The Turkish economy has come a long way since the poverty of the tottering Ottoman Empire, but it will still be years before Turks can afford the expensive lifestyle of their European neighbors. Right now, it is ...
