Cappadocia

Today we will go to Turkey to talk about Cappadocia. Probably you should know about Cappadocia or at least have heard about that but today you will know more about this beautiful place and how the tourism in the zone starts.  

First of all you have to know that Cappadocia is an historical place located in Central Anatolia and its main feature is its geological formation, which it’s unique in the entire world, as well as its cultural and historical heritage.

In 1930 and 1940, when the Europeans have noticed about this incredible place, thanks of the dissemination of the French priest Guillaume de Jerphanion with his studies about the churches in Cappadocia –very common-, they started to travel to Turkey to see Cappadocia and its beauties. Was then when the tourism started to growth until arrived to a growth so large that they have to start to build a lot of infrastructure to keep the tourists and comply their demands.

In the 70s the tourism had reached such high numbers of tourists that its twenty hotels in the zone were not enough, so if they wanted to keep the tourists they had to think what to do to solve this problematic. The solution was to start to rent rooms of their houses and transform their homes to receive the tourists; meanwhile they were building new hotels and infrastructures.

Thanks to that, nowadays, the zone has undergone an economic revitalization that helped not only the tourism but the small business like ceramic, textiles and crafts and its one of the favorites places to do natural tourism.