{"id":163,"date":"2019-11-13T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bazaartimes.co\/?p=163"},"modified":"2019-11-13T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:37:08","slug":"istanbul-to-become-cruise-hub-with-yenikapi-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/istanbul-to-become-cruise-hub-with-yenikapi-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul to become &#8216;cruise hub&#8217; with Yenikapi project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Istanbul&#8217;s Yenikapi Cruise Port Project will become operational soon, Turkey&#8217;s transport and infrastructure minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Istanbul will be the starting and finishing points in cruise tourism after the port becomes operational,&#8221; Cahit Turhan told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turhan did not give further details about the exact date of the launch but said the tender for the project will be completed next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stating that the cruise tourism constitutes 2% of world&#8217;s total tourism, he said: &#8220;Cruise tourism in Turkey grew 23% on average annually from 2003 to 2009&#8221;. Turkey aimed at 3-million cruise passenger capacity, Turhan noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul&#8217;s Yenikapi Cruise Port Project will become operational soon, Turkey&#8217;s transport and infrastructure minister said on Tuesday. &#8220;Istanbul will be the starting and finishing points in cruise tourism after the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[162,26,163,7,51,161],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/izmit-kocali.jpg?fit=1345%2C763&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazaartimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}