Posted by meb at September 4th, 2008

The ambassadress of Norway to Turkey forecast on Thursday that the number of Norwegian tourists visiting Turkey would be over 200,000 by the end of 2008.

Cecilie Landsverk, the Norwegian Ambassadress in Ankara, said that her country predicted that the number of Norwegian citizens visiting Turkey in 2008 would exceed 200,000.

Turkey had become a very popular tourist destination for the Norwegians, Landsverk said.

Landsverk said that Norway’s population was around 4.7 million and that the number of Norwegians visiting Turkey was fairly high when the population was taken into consideration.

The ambassadress also said that the number of Norwegian citizens buying real estate on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast was also on the rise, Norwegians favor vacationing in the southern Mediterranean town of Alanya in the province of Antalya.

Around 5,000 Norwegians had purchased houses in Alanya so far, Landsverk said.

Landsverk also said that the “Sjomannskirken Church”, which would bring Norwegians together for worship, would be inaugurated in Alanya on Sept. 6.

source: Hurriyet daily

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