About Us

ABOUT GORGEOUS TOURS AND TRAVEL:

Operating since 2010, Gorgeous Travel (of Gorgeous Tourism) has become established as one of the top agencies in Turkey for domestic tour services thanks to the commitment and dedication of our young, enthusiastic and dynamic team.  Although our primary office is based in Goreme (Cappadocia, Turkey) where we operate our own local sight-seeing tours and activities, we also offer packaged and customized tours and activities throughout all of Turkey for individual travellers, families and groups.  Using our extensive hotel reservations system, we can offer accommodation that meets your specific requirements at the best competitive rates.
 
From the moment we receive your initial inquiry, we will work with you to create the perfect itinerary for your unique travel requirements and time constraints.  We will use our extensive knowledge and experience to offer multiple itinerary options for you to  consider (if appropriate) to ensure that you can make the most of every minute that you are in Turkey.  As we work together to refine your plans, we know you will appreciate our thoroughness and professionalism which gives you the assurance and confidence that your travel arrangements will be complete and trouble-free.

  
OUR MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY: 

At Gorgeous Travel, we aspire to work collaboratively with our guests to fulfil their holiday dreams through our commitment to providing a personalised and quality travel arrangement service.

 
OUR VISION: 

We aim to take an innovative, principled and responsible role in the Turkish tourism industry.  Our goal is to achieve and maintain 100% guest satisfaction and to be seen as a role model travel agency in this region.


OUR SERVICES:

We can provide any of the following:  Flight tickets, bus tickets, hotel reservations, airport transfers, regional daily tours (group or private), package tours,  local activities (hot air balloon flights, paragliding, safaris, etc) and tours through the different regions of Turkey.

  
OUR PEOPLE:

Cemal Yildirim
Cemal is the founder and Director of Gorgeous Tourism, and it's subsidiary, Gorgeous Travel.  After completing his degree in Tourism at Gazi University, he worked in management roles in various tourism-related companies.  As well as being the Owner/Manager of Gorgeous Travel, he also works as a balloon pilot in Cappadocia and flies the hot air balloons on a daily basis.

Cevdet Yildirm
Cevdet is the Operation Executive at Gorgeous Travel, and is responsible for organising and controlling our daily Cappadocia group tours.  He also received a degree in Tourism from Nevşehir University.

Azad Arpaci
Having studied for his Tourism Guiding degree at Nevşehir University and with more than 8 years of guiding experience, Azad, our Chief Guide, is the most experienced guide in our team.  You will usually find him sharing his knowledge and love of this region on one of our daily Cappadocia tours.

Mehmet Akbas
Having worked in various aspects of tourism over the last few years, Mehmet now works as our ATV Safari Tour Executive. 
 
Remzi Bayraktar
Also having studied in Tourism, Remzi is our Guest Relations Executive and is the one who responds to your email enquiries, manages your tour and activity reservations and basically does anything required to ensure our guests are happy and satisfied with their travel arrangements.

 
IS GORGEOUS TRAVEL A LEGITIMATE AGENCY?

For your protection, you will want to ensure that you are working with a legitimate, legal and registered agency. By law, every Turkish Travel agency and tour operator must be a member of TURSAB (Türkiye Seyahat Agentaları Birliği, Association of Turkish Travel Agencies).  Every TURSAB member has a TURSAB registration number, and any respectable agency will have this number shown on their website and other marketing materials.  You can verify that an agency is registered by searching on this website:  https://www.tursab.org.tr/agency-search.    You can check our registration by searching on ‘Gorgeous Turizm’ and entering our ID number 8202.