Excursions in transit or where the tourist will be offered a free trip during the connection of flights?

Flights with a “long” transfer – not the most favorite offer from tourists. However, at some airports, “getting stuck” for a few hours may be an added bonus to travel, because a number of air ports offer tourists not only endless rows of duty-free shops and cafes, but also free sightseeing tours, thanks to which you can replenish your traveler’s collection with one more destination point, often very nontrivial.

But let’s start with the familiar hub of our tourists – Istanbul Ataturk Airport. Here, free tours of Istanbul, however, are available only to tourists of flights of the Turkish national carrier “Turkish Airlines” and provided that they wait for a transfer from six hours to days. By the way, including this concerns transfers from domestic flights. In order to get on a free tour of Istanbul, tourists will need a passport, boarding pass, as well as some luck – you have to catch the registration of the tour before it starts. Continue reading →