ODEON Turizm, the destination services arm of Coral Travel Group, has topped Turkey’s travel service exports for the fourth consecutive year. The company received recognition at the “İhracatın Şampiyonları Ödülleri” (Champions of Export Awards), organized by the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM), after serving 1.6 million tourists in Turkey and generating $1.6 billion in export revenue in 2025.
The award ceremony at the Haliç Congress Center on June 26, 2026, brought together President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat, Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek and TİM President Mustafa Gültepe. Information from TİM’s latest research, ODEON Turizm ranked first in the travel services category and fifth overall among Turkey’s top 1,000 exporters. Chairman Ayhan Bektaş accepted the award from President Erdoğan and highlighted the company’s consistent leadership in service exports since 2022.
A separate Fortune Türkiye 2025 ranking, compiled with CRIF, placed Odeon Tourism Türkiye 64th among the country’s 500 largest companies, six places higher than in the previous ranking. The company’s net sales rose 55.1% to TRY 65.4 billion. That ranking also placed Odeon 16th among Turkey’s largest exporters and fourth in the tourism and transportation services category, using a different structure from TİM’s exporter list.
Founded in Antalya in 1992, ODEON Turizm provides integrated accommodation, transfer, guidance and group-event services in markets including Egypt, Greece, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Thailand and Vietnam. It is part of Coral Travel Group, which operates 37 companies in 21 countries, employs more than 6,000 people and serves nearly 4 million tourists worldwide each year.
Bektaş outlined the group’s growth strategy, noting that Coral Travel Group served 2.4 million tourists in Europe last year and continues to expand across 90 destinations in 40 countries. Despite global uncertainty, the group aims to maintain its scale and market position through 2026. ODEON Turizm has applied to Turkey’s Capital Markets Board (SPK) as part of its public offering process. It also appears at position 103 on a media-published 2026 list of companies awaiting IPOs. Inclusion on the list does not constitute SPK approval or confirm that an offering has been authorized or scheduled. A public offering requires SPK review and approval of a prospectus.
Coral Travel Group, established in 1992, says it has served more than 40 million tourists over 34 years. Its businesses span tour operations, accommodation, destination services, aviation, travel agencies, information technology and security. The group’s brands include Coral Travel, ODEON Tours, Seven Seas Hotels, Marvida Hotels, Xanadu Resort, ODEONBEDS, ODEON Yazılım ve Teknoloji and ODEON Güvenlik ve Danışmanlık. The planned offering of Odeon Turizm İşletmeciliği A.Ş. would bring the tourism group’s destination-services business to public investors.
Turkey’s tourism exports include travel services delivered to international visitors, making destination operators such as ODEON Turizm a impressive part of the sector. The company’s export ranking and reported net sales show the scale of that business, while any potential offering remains subject to the formal capital-markets approval process.
