Turkey's Most Comprehensive City Guide: Nothing Like Ankara

Introducing newly opened restaurants, cafes and bars in New York, London and Berlin; The number of city guides and web portals that follow the events in the city is quite high. These guides are followed by millions of people, and the places they recommend can be booked up to two or three months later.

The number and influence of city guides is increasing rapidly in Turkey. One of Turkey's most comprehensive city guides for HORECA Trend readers,Nothing Like AnkaraWe visited the office of ” in METU Teknokent and talked about their projects with the team of “Nothing Like Ankara”.

Let's start with the curious question first: Is there really nothing like Ankara for you?

It will be a short and clear answer, but there really is nothing like Ankara! We are sincerely connected to Ankara and we want to eat, drink and travel in this city; We like to go to a good concert, to a play. Ankara is a city where all our team has a history and experiences.

You are creating a city guide with few examples in Turkey. What does a city guide do? What are you doing at Nothing Like Ankara?

In fact, we compile places to eat, drink and visit in Ankara and follow the events. We do not receive any money from any business and share our objective views. Our main communication channel for now @ankaragibisiyok our Instagram account named username and www.ankaragibisiyok.com our web portal.

We reached 6 thousand followers on Instagram in a short period of 21 months. 98% of our followers are from Ankara and this is a very homogeneous mass. A content we share gets more than 16 thousand accesses organically and the places we recommend are often full and overflowing.

Although Ankara is featured on Instagram right now, it is actually a web portal. Our web portal is visited by thousands of people every day. You can find venues in Ankara, information and comments about venues on our portal. We also have an extensive calendar of events that is updated every month. Whatever is going on and going to happen in Ankara, you can reach it from Ankara Like Nothing.

As far as I follow, you are mostly critical of the places and activities you evaluate. For example, you openly write that you do not like most of the places you share. This is not a situation we are used to in Turkey. What was the reaction of your followers and visitors to this situation?

They liked it. Naturally, they found us more friendly. Almost all of our followers know that we do not receive money from the places we go, and on top of that, we pay the bill and leave. This gives us a great deal of freedom. We can write “we didn't like” for a meal we didn't like, and “bad” for a bad concert. Saying "we like" a dish we don't like is unacceptable and immoral in our opinion. We never did, never will. Frankly, we condemn those who do.

What are the future plans of Ankara Likes Yok? How will you develop the guide?

We are present in almost every area of ​​the internet. We are also developing our mobile application and we plan to bring it together with the people of Ankara in the first half of 2023. Currently, we reach two hundred thousand Ankara residents every month through our web portal and social media accounts. Our goal is to be a guide that 2% of Ankara's population applies every day in 25 years. Obviously we are working towards that. 

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