Antalya offers world's lowest-priced 5-star hotel stay

The Berlin-based GoEuro Accommodation Price Index showed on Tuesday that Antalya ranked first in terms of the least expensive five-star accommodations, with an average price of $70 per night. The data refers to the season covering May 1 to Dec. 29. Warsaw in Poland ranked the second most affordable for five-star hotels at $74, while the city of Faro in Portugal, Tunisia's Hammamet and Spain's Santiago de Compostela were the others in the top five least expensive five-star hotel cities. Nearly 35 million tourists visited Turkey in 2013, making it the world's sixth most popular tourism destination. More than 12 million of these tourists stayed in Antalya, official data indicated. Known as Turkey's sunshine capital, Antalya has intensified efforts to diversify in recent years and extend tourism services through the winter season as well, TODAY'S ZAMAN reports. The most expensive city for a five-star hotel stay on GoEuro's index was Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic with an average price of $1,323 per night. The index was compiled based on data from a survey of 40,000 hotels in 150 cities and from the database of Airbnb.com, a global accommodations website. The price index reflected an average of the peak and low season periods of the surveyed countries. An interesting finding in the GoEuro report was that the more five-star hotels a city has, the more affordable it becomes compared to four-star hotel prices. When including all types of accommodations, from hostels through five-star hotels, Albania's capital Tirana was the cheapest city on the index, with an average $30, while Boston in the US was the most expensive at $274, GoEuro said.