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Small Turkish island hosts visitors 65 times its population

Small Turkish island hosts visitors 65 times its population

Avşa Island, a small island with a inhabitants of solely 3,000 situated within the Sea of Marmara within the province of Balıkesir, has been inundated with vacationers, welcoming various visitors not less than 65 instances bigger than the variety of its everlasting residents.

Known for its lovely seashores, clear waters and leisure actions, Avşa Island has develop into a preferred vacation spot, particularly for residents of Istanbul and Bursa.

The variety of vacationers on the island has reached 200,000, resulting in extra ferry, sea bus and Ro-Ro journeys being organized, as per Demirören News Agency (DHA) on Sunday.

All resorts and guesthouses on Avşa Island are totally booked. To meet the elevated demand for meals, markets are continuously delivering provides to the island by way of sea vessels from surrounding districts.

Süleyman Aksoy, mayor of the Marmara Adalar district, the place the island is situated, emphasised that the overall inhabitants of their district and islands surrounding it’s roughly 10,000, however they’re at the moment internet hosting 250,000 folks, with 200,000 of them having fun with their holidays on Avşa Island.

“We, as the municipality here, have increased the number of our staff that is providing round-the-clock services. Due to the high demand, IDO (Istanbul Sea Buses) has increased its daily trips from 2 to 11 on weekends, and Ro-Ro trips have also seen a similar increase,” Aksoy defined.

Additional meals, drinks and clothes objects are being dropped at the island by sea to make sure that vacationers don’t expertise any shortages, he famous.

Mayor Aksoy talked about that the island’s water wants are met by means of the desalination of seawater. “Currently, we are desalinating and supplying 6,500 tons of water to Avşa Island every day. We have experienced no problems,” he stated.

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