General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• Presented by AOPA Greece
• 7th Turkish-Greek Forum on Tourism
• November 2006, Antalya

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• General
  Aviation is
• an activity so diverse that ICAO defines General
  Aviation operations in a negative way. According
  to ICAO (Annex 6, definitions), GA are those
  flying activities that ARE NOT involving
  Commercial Air Transportation or the Military.
• So, among GA activities are
• Recreational flying Aerial photography
• Flight training Surveying
• Crop spraying Search and Rescue
• Observation and patrol and a lot more

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• The Gen Aviation Tourist pie in EU today consists
  of some 44.000 planes and almost 200.000 pilots,
  amounting to 600.000 persons including families
  and friends
• Today Greece gets less than 100 planes and 500
  persons per year (organised air rallies not
  included)

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• European pilots want to fly in Greece and Turkey,
  because
• The Aegean islands and the Aegean Turkish Aegean
  coast line present an environment that cannot be
  found in own countries. An environment that
  reminds the Bermudas and the Maldives islands.
• At the same time, Turkish Anatolia interior
  presents a mystique appeal to Europeans

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• Today Greece gets less than 100 planes and about
  500 persons, or less than 0,2 per year, of the
  European Gen Aviation pie.
• With just a few minor changes and some simple
  caretaking, this could become 1 or about 400
  planes with some 1.500 persons.
• With proper organization, in 2-3 years we could
  have 3-5 that is about 1.000-2.000 planes and
  4.000 to 8.000 persons annually.
• This could become the beginning of the high
  quality tourism for our countries, as the next
  stop is Turkey

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• And what is required to get these results?
• Answer is simple
• Easy access. Is the first single item, that
  could start bringing Gen Aviation tourism in our
  countries
• High quality services, at reasonable prises
  (wealthy tourists, are prepared to pay for high
  quality services, but are resenting paying for
  services they do not get)

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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• Handling charges
• Fuel (AVGAS) Price
• Needs for slots
• Special permissions for VFR flights
• Flexible entry-exit points

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Events of AOPA Hellas in 2002-2006

• International Fly In
• Turkey, Israel, Turkey
• Domestic Fly In with international
  participations, 31 aircrafts
• Kos, Ikaria, Santorini, Mytilini islands
• European Convention for GA, Athens 2004

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Cappadocia
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Eskisehir
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Selcuk - Efes
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Selcuk - Efes
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Santorini
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General Aviation Tourism to Greece and Turkey

• what we expect?
• The support of the Greek and Turkish Ministries
  of Tourism, influence the government and other
  Ministries
• Support and organize Join Activities as Fly in
• AOPA Hellas Fly In 2007, Chios island
• Thank you Any question?