Blue Flag, Antalya
Blue Flag Beaches; The Blue Flag beach hygeine system has been adopted by some Turkish beaches. You should know about it to protect your health.
The Blue Flag is an international environmental award given to safe, clean beaches from all around the world. Turkey has 463 beaches in total that awarded with the blue flag certification as of 2020. You can find a blue flag in most of the coastline in Turkey.
Antalya, also known as the Turkish Riviera is the most stunning part of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast with its perfect sun, endless clean beaches, ultra luxury resorts, nature and history. Antalya, which is home to 203 of the 463 beaches with the blue flag certificate, has the highest number of beaches with a blue flag certificate in the world.
The iconic Blue Flag is one of the world’s most recognised voluntary awards for beaches, marinas, and sustainable boating tourism operators. In order to qualify for the Blue Flag, a series of stringent environmental, educational, safety, and accessibility criteria must be met and maintained.
Central to the ideals of the Blue Flag programme is the aim of connecting the public with their surroundings and encouraging them to learn more about their environment. As such, environmental education activities must be offered and promoted in addition to a permanent display of information relevant to the site in terms of biodiversity, ecosystems and environmental phenomena.
Education: Central to the ideals of the Blue Flag programme is the aim of connecting the public with their surroundings and encouraging them to learn more about their environment.
Information: Informing visitors about the site they are visiting is an essential part of the Blue Flag programme. This allows people to easily navigate the area and to learn a little more about the indigenous flora and fauna.
Monitoring: Stringent criteria and regular spot checks help to encourage compliance of Blue Flag sites, which are also subject to comprehensive control visits.
Management: Appropriate local organisations are selected to implement and enforce the necessary criteria with a view to ensuring a consistency of the standards which make the Blue Flag award so trustworthy and valuable.
Safety: Owners/operators of Blue Flag sites must agree to ensure that safety measures are in place at all times, so that the staff, public and the environment remain safe.
