Legal and safe
Touring in a group with a licensed tourist guide is a legal requirement in Türkiye — and it keeps you on the safe side too.
Konya Tourist Guides Association
Discover Konya with us!
With our licensed professional tourist guides, turn the city’s history, culture and flavours into a story you will remember.
50 professional guides
Service in 9+ languages
Licensed & trusted
Licensed
Guides
Guides
9+ Languages
50 Guides
City of
Hearts
Hearts
Services
How can we help you?
Everything you need when planning a tour — from requesting a guide to museum fees.
Find a Guide
Tell us your tour date, language and programme; your request reaches our licensed guides. Separate forms for individual visitors and agencies.
Sample Programmes
Hour-by-hour sample day tours our guides actually run — a starting point for planning your visit.
Museum Fees
Current admission fees and opening hours for Konya’s museums and archaeological sites, all in one list.
Events Calendar
From Şeb-i Arûs to festivals, everything happening in Konya through the year, month by month.
Brochures
Konya travel brochures and promotional material — coming here soon.
Why?
Why visit with a tourist guide?
Touring with a guide is not just about information — it is experiencing the city accurately, safely and enjoyably.
You truly understand the city
Your guide tells each place not through dates alone, but woven together with art, culture and lived experience.
You waste no time
With a guide who knows what is where and how long each place deserves, you see more and tire less.
An unforgettable experience
Exploring Konya with an expert guide is not an ordinary outing; it becomes a story worth retelling.
Still have questions? Answers about the licensed-guide requirement, tour length, fees and languages are on our Frequently Asked Questions page.
50+
Professional Guides
9+
Languages
50+
Places to See
1,000+
Happy Guests
Testimonials
What our guests say
“Seeing Konya with a guide changed everything. We saw the Mevlana Museum with completely new eyes — what we heard was deeply moving.”
İstanbul
“Working with a professional guide made a real difference when showing the city to our foreign guests. Attentive, knowledgeable and warm.”
Germany
“Our Çatalhöyük and Sille tour was superb. We used our time so well and learned a great deal without ever feeling rushed.”
Ankara
Where to go?
Places to discover in Konya
From Rumi to Çatalhöyük, from Sille to Meram — countless stops to explore with our guides.
Setting it straight
Common misconceptions about Konya
Hear the truth behind long-repeated myths from our guides.
Rumi’s father is said to have risen to his feet at the burial
The factNo physical rising took place; the height of the sarcophagus has nothing to do with this story.
“Konya is the city that consumes the most alcohol”
The factThe ethyl alcohol used by Konya’s many cologne factories distorts the figure behind this claim.
“Afyon for cream, Konya for madmen”
The factThe saying is really about “MAN oil” — it comes from Konya’s renowned skill in servicing MAN trucks.
Our team
Meet our guides
50 professional tourist guides, each an expert in their field, working in a range of languages.
Our Association Member Guides42
- Aişenur Yazıcıoğlu
- Ali Özlü
- Ali Cahit Selvi
- Ayşenur Sayar
- Beyzanur Ciğer
- Bilge Arıcan
- Bilge Çetiner
- Bilge Kağan Tokgöz
- Büşra Akseki
- Fatih Çağrı Güler
- Fatma Yılmaz
- Filiz Acar
- Filiz Güneş
- Gürcan Altunkaynak Details coming soon
- Gürkan Sarıtaş
- Hasan Ali Erdoğan
- Hasan Çağatay Bulut
- Hicran Yazıcıoğlu
- İbrahim Soyarslan
- Mehmet Dönmez
- Mehmet Akif Yıldırım
- Mehmet Fatih Göksel Details coming soon
- Miraç Küçükcivil
- Murat Dedeoğlu
- Mustafa Çepik
- Mustafa Eray Şenkal
- Necati Koçak
- Okan Tosun
- Rabia Köçer
- Rüveyde Soyarslan
- Salih Zeki Keş
- Serkan Aylan Details coming soon
- Sümeyra Şimşek
- Şakir Özşen
- Şerife Arslan
- Tuba Bağcı Details coming soon
- Tuğba Kabakçı
- Üzeyir Özyurt Details coming soon
- Yavuz Aydın
- Yunus Güneş
- Zeynep Dostkol
- Zeynep Sena Bulut
Ready to discover Konya?
One message is all it takes to meet the right guide for you.