TRAVEL ADVICE / LEGAL NOTICE

Turkey is a fully secular modern and safe country providing the hospitality to all visitors as an aspect of culture of the anatolian culture.

Unfortunately there may be some misuse of the goodwill and trust, misleading the agreements in travel arrangements of some visitors like every developing adventure destination.

To have %100 secure financial and organizational deals, it is obliged by the law no 1618 for any visitor to arrange and book all the travel & tourism related services with a licensed travel agency and tour operator from the Ministry of Tourism of Turkey.

Incoming & Outgoing tour operations is allowed only for A group travel agencies. You can check the list of the licensed A group travel agencies of Turkey from the links www.tursab.org.tr and www.tourism.gov.tr

As a case study, unfortunately a big percentage of the Mount Ararat Trek organizers have no legal title to do so and any visitor of the region who engages with this illegal organizations has no right to ask for refund or reclaim in case of any disagreement.

Additionaly, any good reference and/or succesful trip with these organizations does not mean that any other participants will not have problem with authorities in case of denunciation and/or being caught by the armed forces in this second degree military area.

To check that you are already dealing with a fully licensed tour operator, please ask for the related license from the Ministry of Tourism as shown below:

You can also find the lists of the A group tour operators of Turkey below:

http://www.tursab.org.tr/content/english/agencies/sorgueng/index1.asp