Best time to visit in Dalaman
Understand This area is rugged, but the small Dalaman river has carved out a fertile plain, so around town is agricultural - one notable landowner was Abbas II the last Ottoman ruler of Egypt and Sudan. Dalaman town was (and remains) an insignificant market centre, until western tourism to Turkey got going from the 1970s. The flat plain was an obvious site for an airport, so this was built just south of town to open in 1981. It's been upgraded since, with the second terminal opening in 2018, and has boosted tourism along a 200 km stretch of coastline that had previously involved a long coach transfer from airports such Izmir or Antalya. (Milas-Bodrum airport gave a similar boost to resorts further north.) Dalaman's own resort strip of Sarıgerme is small, so most tourists who book holidays marketed as "Dalaman" will be whisked away by their package coaches and never set foot here.
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