With a population of 45,082, Kemer is a town on the Mediterranean coast, 40 kilometers from Antalya. While it was a small village until the early 1980s, it has become one of the most important centers of Turkish tourism with the facilities opened in the last 20 years. It first became a village, then a municipality on December 30, 1985, and became a town on September 13, 1991, and gained county status on September 13, 1991.
