Huge increase in the number of businesses receiving this certificate
The interest in the Safe Tourism Certificate, which was developed under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in cooperation with the Ministries of Health, Transport and Infrastructure, Interior and Foreign Affairs, continues to increase.
In the 2 months since the start of the certificate program, the number of accommodation facilities that received Safe Tourism Certificate reached 2,211, the number of food and beverage facilities reached 1,235, and the number of tour transfers reached 1,431.
With the start of charter flights from the source markets that send tourists to our country as of August, this number is expected to increase even more. This requirement was previously valid for hotels with 50 rooms or more. According to this, the accommodation facilities with a capacity of 30 rooms and 49 rooms and are active until 1/1/2021, and the accommodation facilities with 30 rooms and more that will start operating after this date, within seven days after the ‘Safe Tourism Certificate’ conditions are they will need to obtain the Safe Tourism Certificate

Stating that social distance rules should also be followed in small businesses, Yalçınkaya said, “Especially in businesses where there are kiosks, canteens, standing services and queues, the threat is great, as the experts say. They should produce and serve immediately. We strongly recommend them to avoid excessive stocks. We also provide consultancy to businesses and carry out R&D studies. We will be able to include handicrafts in our lives with a new kitchen layout. Coronavirus already can say brought a research center associated with gastronomy our lives, “he said.” Turkey, gastronomy will undoubtedly place it deserves in tourism “, indicating that finally the beginning of Turkey’s gastronomic tourism Yalcinkaya,” Tourism Ministry is doing a roadmap about it. Actually, we have a roadmap related to gastro tourism. This is being developed further. We are at the very beginning because we have a Mesopotamian, Anatolia, Black Sea, mosaic life, and we are not even at 50 percent of the food here. When we came to Turkey to 100 percent, in the most demanding gastronomic tourism will not have the slightest doubt that in the country, “he concluded.