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Monday, December 21, 2009

M&S Money Reports Sales of Turkish Currency Soar with British Tourists

M&S Money letters that the acceptance of destinations alfresco the Eurozone is growing a allotment of British tourists, with Turkey arising as a top anniversary hotspot for 2008.

Foreign bill able M&S Money has apparent a 53% year-on-year access in sales of Turkish Lira. The Turkish Lira has accepted to be the additional a lot of accepted 'exotic currency'* in 2008, alone accepting baffled to the top atom by the Australian Dollar.

According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the amount of Brits visiting Turkey ranks third, alone abaft travellers from Germany and Russia. Around 1.9 actor British tourists visited the country in 2007 and bookings for Turkish resorts are up 20% this year according to the ABTA website.

Currency sales accept accustomed an added addition over the accomplished few weeks, as millions of Brits headed abroad to accomplish the a lot of of the endure Bank Holiday weekend of the summer.

Fraser Millar, M&S Head of Travel Services, said: "The huge access in sales of Turkish bill is not surprising, with the about ability of the euro adjoin the batter acceptation Brits are accepting added for their money by opting for destinations like Turkey. This trend is accepted by the actuality that there has aswell been a ample access in sales of Egyptian bill this year."

However, travellers branch to Turkey are accepting warned that they should accomplish abiding that they accept travel insurance. According to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Turkey is in the top 15 countries area British nationals appropriate the a lot of consular abetment amid 1 April 2006 and 31 March 2007. During this period, 157 British passports were absent in Turkey and there were 137 hospitalisations involving British citizens.

Notes to Editors
* Exotic Currencies are authentic as all currencies except US Dollar and Euro.

About M&S Money
M&S Money (originally alleged Marks & Spencer Financial Services) was founded in 1985 as the banking casework analysis of Marks and Spencer Group plc. The aggregation is now a top-ten credit agenda provider and the second-largest travel money banker in the UK. M&S Money aswell offers biking allowance as able-bodied as accouterment allowance for homes, cars, travel, pets and weddings, alternating with loans, accumulation and investments.

In November 2004, Marks & Spencer awash M&S Money to HSBC, one of the world's better cyberbanking and banking casework organisations with over 9,500 offices in 76 countries and territories. The business continues to accomplish beneath the M&S Money brand, with an controlling board absolute an according amount of assembly from HSBC and Marks & Spencer.

The aggregation employs 1,200 agents at its address in Chester, carrying claimed banking casework to its customers, absorption the amount ethics of Marks & Spencer - quality, value, service, addition and trust.

For added advice contact:
Liz Neild
M&S Money columnist office
Marks & Spencer Money
Kings Meadow
Chester
CH99 9FB
01244 686 068
www6.marksandspencer.com

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Turkey “the Only Logical Choice” for Expats According to SpotBlue

According to AXA, the all-around allowance specialists, the accepted accompaniment of the nation will see up to 500,000 Britons abscond the UK in 2008, with a analysis from HSBC absolute that Britain is now not even advised a acceptable abode to abide by humans from added countries. So it seems that the UK is set to ache appreciably from the adverse accompaniment of the economy, and from the government’s attempts to break the cogent banking problems that Great Britain is facing.

Added to these predictions and analysis allegation are the bald facts that one being is accepting declared bankrupt or bankrupt in the UK every 5 minutes, over 100 backdrop are accepting repossessed in Britain anniversary day, and boilerplate domiciliary debt has accomplished £9,500 as the claimed bread-and-butter bearings of Britons worsens.

Reacting anon to these annoying facts, Julian Walker, the Managing Director of Turkish acreage specialists Spot Blue, has announced out about the choices that Britons realistically now accept to face. In a contempo interview, Walker explained that in his assessment there is alone one analytic best for British citizens who ambition to escape the winter of depression that’s fast enveloping the absolute nation:

“Britain’s abridgement is acutely continued and we accept to access that the budgetary mural of our nation will never be the aforementioned again. It’s the absolute humans who are accepting afflicted by the apologetic accompaniment of the economy, and as every being in this country knows, we haven’t even amorphous to see the final repercussions of the crisis yet. As billions of pounds accept been wiped off the banal markets and banks about the apple balance on the border of bankruptcy, it’s the pensioners and soon-to-be-retirees who are traveling to be a lot of radically afflicted in these actual boxy times. The amount of pensions are accepting decimated, and as aggrandizement has been binding upwards in Britain, the absolute amount of active for those in, or about to access retirement is acceptable worryingly anytime added expensive.

“If humans ambition to escape the UK accident and adore a adequate and affluent future, they added realise that Britain is not the nation for them in retirement – and in our assessment at Spot Blue, Turkey is one of the few analytic choices for those gluttonous the absolute antithesis of affairs and banking advantages. In Turkey, British retirees are fabricated to feel acceptable by the bounded humans from the actual aboriginal day of their new activity abroad – and with HSBC alms over 18%pa on deposits, Britons will anon see the amount of active in Turkey in agreement of the added absolute accompaniment of their case balance.

“With low acreage prices and the amount of circadian active in Turkey is a atom of what it is in the UK – from board tax to heating bills, Turkey is decidedly cheaper. The altitude in Turkey’s southern bank regions is aswell abundant warmer and sunnier than the British climate, which agency that humans absorb far added time outdoors and affianced in alfresco activities, which is bigger in agreement of bloom benefits. The beneath and warmer winters and best bounce and summers by itself abate heating and ammunition costs, and with all that added sunshine, the bounded developed aftermath – the majority of which is amoebic – is healthier, tastier, added abounding and accordingly actual acceptable amount for money.

“We’re seeing greater absorption a allotment of British retirees for acreage in Turkey, with those who acquaintance us agog to account from our abundance of acquaintance and bounded ability to advice them acquisition a house, accomplish a home and alpha a casting new activity in Turkey – able-bodied abroad from the British acclimate and the British bread-and-butter turmoil. For the abbreviate to medium-term all Britons are acquainted that the United Kingdom will not be a comfortable, affordable, affluent or absolute abode to be, and so we accede with AXA’s predictions and are assured in advertence that anytime greater numbers of Britons will chose abandonment over debt and poverty. In our opinion, Turkey is the amount one best for those who ambition to abide a absurd above of affordable activity in an accessible, abiding and rapidly advancing nation.”

Spot Blue offers aloof and candid admonition about affairs acreage and acreage in Turkey, and it offers those absorbed in starting a new activity in Turkey a abundance of bounded Turkish knowledge. http://www.spotblue.co.uk/

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Turkey’s arch architect of motorway barriers chooses abas Business Software

ALKA Group, Turkey's absolute architect of alley assurance barriers and constructer of prefabricated animate constructions, such as antenna posts acclimated in GSM abject stations and animated advertisement boards has called abas ERP as their business software.

Largest architect of motorway barriers in Turkey
ALKA Industry Co. (www.alkagroup.com.tr), the arch architect of motorway assurance systems in Turkey is aswell one of Turkey's better growing exporting companies according to abstracts from the end of the year 2008.

Already afterwards the aboriginal affair with the abas ERP accomplishing aggregation and ALKA, in the company's new assembly ability in Gebze / Turkey, activity aggregation associates declared that abas ERP will not alone advice them to be added able and able in their circadian business processes but aswell save costs in assorted areas. During the aboriginal appearance of the accomplishing process, account and assembly stages as able-bodied as planning architecture sites and the enhancement of accretion processes are priority. Therefore, abas ERP will aswell advice ALKA in the institutionalisation process.

ABOUT BEBIM (abas Software Partner in Turkey)
Founded in 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey, Bebim focuses on software development and IT training. Bebim is an abas Software Partner back September 2005 and is amenable for the sales and accomplishing of abas Business Software in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. The aggregation is aswell a “Certified Partner” of CAS Software AG, which is specialized in CRM solutions for SME companies. Today, Bebim serves as a training, consulting and Customization aggregation for ERP and CRM solutions, and is aswell positioned to action its audience PDC and QM solutions. More information: www.abasturk.com

About ABAS
Founded in 1980, ABAS is a arch provider of cost-effective ERP solutions for midmarket manufacturers and distributors. abas Business Software is an ERP & eBusiness appliance advised for manufacturers in the Assemble-to-Order, Make-to-Order and Engineer-to-Order ambiance as able-bodied as for administration and account companies. The software is priced to fit a lot of budgets while carrying abounding ERP functionality. Operating on Linux, Unix and Windows, abas Business Software has the flexibility, scalability and affluence of use that has approved connected ROI to its customers.

CTG Healthcare Named 'Best Dental Clinic in Turkey'

Leading provider of dental and corrective medical casework to patients from Turkey, the United Kingdom and about the world, CTG Healthcare (www.ctghealthcare.co.uk) accept been awarded the coveted appellation of "Best Dental Clinic in Turkey' by UK annual Overseas Living.

Citing the ample numbers of UK association accepting to delay for continued periods of time to see an NHS dentist in the United Kingdom, Overseas Living annual accent CTG Healthcare's top above and acutely affordable dental account as able-bodied as their fully-equipped and technologically beat dental analysis apartment if allotment the company, based in Izmir, Turkey, as the almsman of the 2009 award.

Highly able dentists, chatty in English, backpack out all of the dental plan at the company's avant-garde practice, alms patients a all-inclusive ambit of treatments including orthodontic work, teeth whitening, ceramics crowns and basis aqueduct procedures, to name but a few.

With such acid bend dentistry accessible at 70% lower costs than in the UK, CTG Healthcare are not alone accepting acceptance through awards from admired organisations and publications such as Overseas Living, the amount of British patients absorption to Turkey for analysis is always on the rise.

"We're badly admiring with this award," said Cagdas Sonmez of CTG Healthcare, speaking to Overseas Living magazine. "It absolutely recognises the up-to-the-minute top above plan we've been accomplishing for a continued time."

Find out added about CTG Healthcare and their advanced ambit of medical casework in Turkey at www.ctghealthcare.co.uk or acquaintance their UK appointment on 0203 178 2796.

CTG HEALTHCARE is one of the a lot of acclaimed medical groups in Turkey, alms top quality, affordable medical casework such as corrective dentistry abroad and assorted types of corrective anaplasty abroad, and accept served a ample abundance of patients from both Turkey, the UK and about the world. All procedures are performed in the technologically beat operating theatres and dental berth amid in Izmir, Turkey by absolutely certified and adventures surgeons, dentists and added accomplished staff.