Just 6 months ago, everything was a big dream and planned on paper, but the belief of the Syrian young man Abdullah Darwish in his capabilities and the difference of his project from what is known among the people of his Arab community in Turkey, was the secret behind the rapid success of the idea of designing a caravan - a car as a mobile home - a tourist called it The name "Ayla", provides its visitors with the pleasure of traveling, adventure, and enjoying nature and camping in it.
While some consider spending money on a new project, especially tourism, at these times a trail of madness, due to the Corona pandemic and its negative effects on many business sectors, Darwish found in these circumstances an opportunity to start a caravan, especially after he left his work in the field of sales.
Syrian young man Abdullah Darwish during the preparation of the Ayla caravan project (Al-Jazeera)
Darwish said to Al-Jazeera Net, "I love traveling and camping, and I also studied cooking professionally, and I found the establishment of a tourist caravan in the conditions of general closure accompanying the Corona pandemic an opportunity for people to go out to nature and enjoy its cleanliness and beauty away from pollution and overcrowding."
He added, "The start of such projects in Turkey is very easy, as they are common among Turks and foreigners in general, and we find great fame for caravan tourism in their countries, whether in the same city or between cities and some of them, so I try through my project to create a new concept for tourism in Turkey among residents. And Arab tourists. "
Darwish, a young man who is only 27 years old, managed within weeks to establish a base of visitors to the caravan thanks to his multiple services and the distinctive shape of his car and its difference from what is on the schedule of visits by tourists coming to Turkey.
Abdullah Darwish studied culinary arts professionally at a university in Istanbul (the island)
The young man, who studied cooking professionally at a university in Istanbul, offers daily trips using caravans, which go to various regions within Turkish cities, provided that each trip includes lunch or breakfast meals, and these trips can also be an opportunity to hold some occasions such as birthdays.
Darwish said, "Everything in the caravan is from the ideas of my wife and I, from its exterior design to the interior decorations and tools that we use on trips or events that we set up for customers."
He also indicated that the caravan not only succeeded in challenging the Corona virus and its negative effects, which affected, for example, restaurants and forced them to close for months in a row, but also proved to him and his wife that they can look forward to more success and think of bigger dreams.
Darwish added, "When I decided to launch the caravan project with the beginning of the Corona pandemic, I said that experience alone is the standard, and indeed we succeeded because people found in the car the cleanliness that they desired and the opportunity to go anywhere in nature difficult for them to reach or camp in without a lot of professional equipment." .
The caravan not only succeeded in defying the Corona virus, but also proved to Darwish and his wife that they can look forward to more success (Al-Jazeera)
Darwish provides its services to groups that do not exceed 10 people in a single trip, indicating that it receives all age groups.
It is noteworthy that the Ayla Caravan project also fulfilled Darwish's dream of owning his own car.
And he added, "I was thinking of buying a private car, and with the length of the general closure at the beginning of 2020, I thought that our car would be the same source of livelihood, so we established the caravan and named it Ayla, our future daughter, and by this it became part of our family and our lives."
Darwish dreams that the summer seasons will witness a wider activity for caravans, so he embarks on long trips between Turkish cities, with adventurers and tourists who want to explore nature and experience camping and sleeping away from luxurious hotel rooms.