The two-continent hub: Istanbul Airport's 90M-passenger capacity feeds a city where Bosphorus palaces, Galataport and a resort-grade pipeline meet record transfer traffic.
Istanbul runs two hotel markets at once: the Bosphorus palace tier — Çırağan, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental — pricing like a resort, and the business-city grid around Taksim, Levent and the new airport, pricing on corporate demand. Galataport's cruise waterfront added a third.
The pipeline is resort-grade — Peninsula, Rixos expansions, branded residences — while Turkish Airlines' transfer machine keeps occupancy structurally high. TIO is building the city's new-openings tracker; it goes live in the next wave.
The Istanbul dossier is complete — tracker plus four urban reads: the airport node, the rail node, the passport table and the money flow.
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