Most tour operators ask for your money first and your trust later. Rizzi Travel does it the other way around. The family-run, TURSAB-licensed operator based in Kemer, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, lets travellers reserve a tour online and pay their guide in person on the day — no prepayment, no deposit, no card held on file. It is a small promise that says a great deal about how the company has worked since 2010: trust before payment, not after.
Rizzi Travel is a tour operator in Kemer, Antalya, offering guided day tours, private transfers and custom itineraries across Turkey's southern coast and beyond. It is licensed by TURSAB — the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies — and it is run by a family that was, in its own words, "born in Kemer, passionate about travel." What began in 2010 as a small local operation now serves thousands of visitors a year from Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, Lithuania, Latvia and further afield.
We believe trust is built before you pay, not after. Book with us, and pay your guide only when you join the tour.
## The no-prepayment promise
The single feature that sets Rizzi Travel apart from almost every online booking platform is also the simplest: you do not pay in advance. Reserve any tour on the site, and the amount is due only when you arrive and join it — settled directly with your guide.
That runs against the entire grain of modern travel e-commerce, where prepaid, often non-refundable bookings are the default and the deposit is taken the moment you click. Rizzi Travel's bet is that removing the up-front risk removes the biggest reason a traveller hesitates. You are not wiring money to a company you have never met in a country you may be visiting for the first time. You book, you show up, you see the guide and the vehicle, and then you pay. For a first-time visitor to Antalya weighing dozens of unfamiliar operator names, that reversal is not a marketing line — it is the whole decision.
## Born in Kemer, licensed to operate
Two facts do the quiet work of establishing credibility. The first is the TURSAB licence: membership of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies is the credential that separates accountable, insured operators from the informal market of hotel-lobby resellers, and it is the first thing an experienced traveller looks for. The second is that Rizzi Travel is genuinely family-run — the same people who founded it still answer the messages, meet the guests and stand behind the no-prepayment promise. It is not a faceless aggregator reselling other companies' seats.
Fifteen years in one region also means the company knows its ground. Rizzi Travel is built around Kemer and Antalya, with reach along the coast to Alanya and inland to Turkey's headline destinations — Istanbul, Cappadocia and Pamukkale — for travellers who want to pair a beach holiday with the country's most famous sights.
## What Rizzi Travel offers
The company does three things, and does them in a way structured to be booked online in any language:
- Guided day tours — the core of the business, from cable-car summits to island boat trips and theme parks. - Private transfers — airport and resort transfers across the Antalya region, booked to a fixed price. - Custom tours — bespoke itineraries assembled around what a family or group actually wants to see, rather than a fixed package.
Every tour is presented with an honest set of facts up front — duration, a real customer rating and review count, the destination, and a price in euros — and a "Manage My Reservation" flow so a booking can be changed after the fact. Prices display in euros by default, with multi-currency and multilingual switching built into the site.
## Signature tours
A few tours anchor the catalogue, and they read like a good day out on the Turkish Mediterranean:
- Tahtalı Cable Car Tour (2,365 m) — about 8 hours, from €45 (rated 4.8). From the beach to a 2,365-metre summit in roughly ten minutes, up one of the world's longest cableways, for a view that runs from the Taurus Mountains to the sea. - Tahtalı Cable Car — Sunset with Dinner — about 4 hours, from €80 (rated 4.9). Dinner at 2,365 metres as the sun goes down over the sea far below. - Suluada Boat Tour — a full day, around 10 hours, from €30 (rated 4.9 across nearly fifty reviews). Four swim stops around an uninhabited island often called the "Maldives of Turkey," in water clear to twenty metres. - Dolusu Aquapark (Kemer) — a full-day family water park, rated a perfect 5.0. - The Land of Legends (Antalya) — a full-day trip to one of the region's biggest theme parks. - Fire of Anatolia Show (Antalya) — an evening at the internationally touring Turkish dance spectacle.
The through-line is not the lowest price — it is a curated shortlist of the things actually worth doing around Kemer and Antalya, each one bookable without paying a cent up front.
## Booked in your language
Rizzi Travel's multilingual team works in English, Russian, German, French and more — a direct reflection of who visits this coast. The site itself switches language and currency, and the booking, the reminders and the guide on the day all meet travellers in a language they are comfortable with. For the German, Russian, British and Baltic guests who make up much of the company's audience, that is the difference between a smooth trip and a stressful one.
## The people behind Rizzi Travel
Rizzi Travel is, before anything else, a group of people who know each other. The team page reads less like an org chart and more like a family and its close circle:
- İbrahim Ergin — Founder. The person who started Rizzi Travel in Kemer and still sets its tone. (Turkish) - Cansu Ergin — Founder's Wife. Part of the founding family, working across the business. (Turkish, German, English) - Uğurcan Özver — Cansu's Brother. Family, on the team. (Turkish, English, Lithuanian) - Selim Emre Özkan — Uğurcan's Best Friend. The close-circle addition every family business seems to have. (Turkish, English, Lithuanian) - Hakan Yetiş — Full Stack Software Engineer. The developer behind Rizzi Travel's booking platform and website. (Turkish, English)
The mix of languages across the team — Turkish, English, German and Lithuanian among them — is not decoration. It maps almost exactly onto the markets Rizzi Travel serves, which is why a guest from Vilnius or Hamburg tends to find someone who speaks their language on the other end.
## A note on this profile
This profile was written and edited by the Citeley editorial desk because Rizzi Travel is a real, licensed operator that fits our coverage area — a well-run regional business with a genuinely distinctive model. In the interest of full disclosure: Rizzi Travel's booking platform and website were built by Hakan Yetiş, who is also the founder of Citeley and appears on Rizzi Travel's own team page as its full-stack engineer. We disclose that working relationship here, and we apply the same editorial standard to it that we apply to every related-party subject we cover. Read our methodology and editorial standards for how that works.
