Turkish Airlines rolls out holiday...

One-stop solution provides deals, packages and access to more than half a million hotels

Travellers from the UAE now have access to the Turkish Airlines Holidays' one-stop booking platform for flights, hotels, tours, activities, car rentals and transfers, streamlining trip planning and booking on trips to Türkiye and beyond.

Turkish Airlines Holidays offers exclusive discounts and packages, plus access to more than half a million hotels. That means agents from the UAE can use the platform to reach more than 300 international destinations and 53 within Türkiye.

For UAE-based agents, the all-in-one platform makes juggling multiple bookings with different providers seamless, with the platform’s user-friendly interface allowing users to customise trips easily.

The platform also offers competitive pricing on bookings, as well as valuable perks such as free checked baggage, an attractive benefit for those travelling with extra luggage, and is integrated with the Miles&Smiles loyalty programme, so customers can accumulate extra points to be redeemed on flights and upgrades.

Türkiye is the number-one outbound destination for travellers from the GCC region, ahead of Egypt and Thailand, according to the Connecting Travel Insight Report 2025 which was launched at Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2025.

Istanbul welcomes more than 80% of the country’s GCC arrivals, with seat capacity to the capital up 20% in 2024. Connectivity to beach resorts like Bodrum and Antalya has declined slightly, though low-cost carriers such as FlyDubai and Flynas are stepping in where national carriers have scaled back.

Saudi-origin routes are forecast to increase by 9% in H1 2025, according to data from Mabrian, with national flag carrier Saudia recently adding summer flights to Antalya.

The country will welcome a number of new attractions in 2025, including the revamp of Göbeklitepe in Anatolia, southeastern Türkiye, the world’s oldest temple complex, with new walking paths and discoveries, and Nickelodeon Land theme park complex within the Land of Legends in Antalya, featuring rides and experiences dedicated to TV shows SpongeBob SquarePants, Star Trek and PAW Patrol.

Göbeklitepe in Anatolia, southeastern Türkiye

As for accommodations, Türkiye’s hotel scene is diverse, with 161 new hotels slated to open by 2025, with the majority (139) four- or five-star properties, including the170-key Barceló Cappadocia offering luxury cave rooms set in the ancient rock.

It’s not just travellers from this region who are flocking to Türkiye. Data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkiyë shows the country attracted 62.3 million visitors in 2024, an increase of 9.8% over 2023.

As Türkiye's national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines was included in Skytrax’s top 10 world’s best business class airlines 2024, unveiled a new Crystal Business Class Suite at ATM.

For more information, visit holidays.turkishairlines.com/en-WW

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