وكالة سفر وارد في تركيا: ما نحجزه وتقويم عام 2027

An incoming travel agency in Turkey is a licensed Turkish company that receives your clients and runs their trip inside the country: airport meetings, licensed guides, vehicles, hotels, domestic flights and tickets, while your agency sells the trip at home. Get Turkey Tours works in that role for travel agencies and tour operators abroad. We are a TÜRSAB member with A-group licence A-15751, operated by Viracocha Travel, and we quote every agency request in writing for that enquiry. Partner enquiries start on our travel agents page.

This page looks at the job from your side of the desk: what an incoming agency books, which airports serve which regions, the 2027 dates that change how a programme runs, the usual sequence from first enquiry to departure, and the limits of what a local partner can do for you.

Incoming, outbound and receptive: the terms

The industry uses several words for the same role.

• Incoming or inbound agency: a company in the destination that handles visitors arriving from abroad. In Turkey this is the work of an A-group licensed agency.
• Receptive operator: the American term for the same job.
• Outbound agency or tour operator: you, selling Turkey to travellers in your own country.
• DMC and ground handler: two ways of describing how much of the programme the incoming agency designs. Our pages on choosing a DMC in Istanbul and on Istanbul ground handling explain the difference.

In Turkey the legal frame is set by Law No. 1618 on Travel Agencies, under which travel agency services need an operating licence from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and membership of TÜRSAB, and by the Professional Tour Guiding Law (No. 6326), which reserves guiding for licensed tourist guides. For how to check a licence, see our page for agents looking for a Turkey tour operator.

What an incoming agency books for you

On a typical programme, the incoming agency arranges:

• Arrivals and departures: meeting the client in the arrivals hall, transfers between airports, hotels, ports and stations.
• Guides: licensed tourist guides for city days, regional tours and full circuits, in English as standard; other languages on request, subject to availability.
• Vehicles and drivers: private cars and minivans for small parties, midibuses and coaches for groups.
• Hotels: booking and reconfirming rooms in the client's name.
• Domestic flights: the internal legs between Istanbul and the regions, where the programme needs them.
• Entry tickets, restaurants and activities: museum tickets where included, lunches and dinners, boat trips, and balloon flights in Cappadocia, which are always subject to weather and the daily flight permission.
• Support during the trip: a contact on WhatsApp for the client and for your agency.

What you normally keep: the client contract, the sale of international flights if you sell them, travel insurance advice, and the client's payment.

Regions and their gateway airports

Turkey is big, and most programmes combine Istanbul with one or more regions linked by domestic flights. The airport choice shapes the transfer times, so it belongs in the first draft of any itinerary.

Distances are road distances measured on OpenStreetMap routing, and the Bodrum figure is from the State Airports Authority. For the coast in detail, see our destination guides for Fethiye and Bodrum.

The 2027 calendar that changes a programme

Several dates in 2027 affect hotel availability, opening hours and prices. These are the ones we plan around.

Religious holiday dates follow the Presidency of Religious Affairs calendar. During the two bayrams, museums usually stay open but domestic flights and coastal hotels fill with Turkish travellers, and some markets and shops close or keep shorter hours. For the May holiday in detail, see our Eid al-Adha 2027 guide; for Holy Week, our Easter 2027 in Turkey page.

From first enquiry to departure

Most agency bookings follow the same sequence. Knowing it helps you set expectations with your own client.

1. Brief. You send dates or a month, the number of travellers and rooms, nationalities, hotel level, regions, guide language and whether the trip is private or a closed group.
2. Programme and written quote. We reply with a day-by-day programme and a quote that lists the price to your agency, the currency, the inclusions and exclusions, the hotels, the payment schedule and the cancellation terms.
3. Revisions. Most programmes go through one or two rounds: a slower first day, a hotel swap, an extra region.
4. Confirmation. You confirm in writing and pay the deposit set in the quote; we book hotels, flights and guides.
5. Rooming list and names. Passenger names as in the passports, which domestic flights require, and any dietary or mobility needs.
6. Final documents. The confirmed programme, hotel list, meeting points and emergency contacts, in the format agreed with you.
7. On the trip. The client meets the driver and guide; you and the client can reach us on WhatsApp.
8. After the trip. Any feedback or issue is shared with you, so you can follow up with your client.

Money: currency and quote validity

The Turkish lira is the local currency, and many costs on the ground, such as hotels, flights and fuel, move with it. Museum fees for foreign visitors are set in euros. Our published tour prices are in US dollars. Each written quote states its currency and a validity date, because hotel and flight prices depend on availability on the day we confirm.

A few practical points for agencies:

• Entry tickets. Check whether a quote includes them. Our page on the cost of a trip to Turkey sets out typical fees for travellers.
• Tips and meals. State clearly to your client what is included, so there are no surprises at the end of a long day.
• Payment. The payment schedule and method are set out in the quote for each booking.

What an incoming agency cannot do for you

A good local partner is clear about its limits.

• Visas. Clients apply for an e-Visa themselves on the official evisa.gov.tr site where they need one. Rules depend on nationality and change by decree; our visa requirements update is a starting point, and the Turkish foreign ministry is the official source.
• Your consumer obligations. If you sell a package to clients in the EU, EU rules make the organiser responsible for the proper performance of every service in the package. Your contract with us should mirror what you promise.
• Guaranteed weather-dependent activities. Balloon flights, boat days and paragliding depend on the conditions on the day.
• Free cancellation or price guarantees by default. Terms are set per booking, in the written quote.

If you want to sell our programmes under your own name, tell us when you first write through our travel agents page, and we set out in the quote how documents and the welcome sign will appear.

Tours that cover this

• Private Turkey tour package, 8 days: from $2,250 per person, Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus and Pamukkale.
• Best of Turkey tour package, 15 days: from $3,980 per person, adding the Antalya coast.
• Istanbul and Ephesus tour package, 8 days: from $1,880 per person.
• Private Istanbul day with driver, Mercedes Vito: from $299 per group.

These are our public prices; agency rates are quoted in writing per enquiry. Our multi-day trips list shows the full range.

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