Istanbul Tourism Fair opens its doors to visitors...

The Istanbul Tourism Fair (ITF) opened its doors to visitors at the Istanbul Congress Centre.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the fair, Association of Turkish Hoteliers (TÜROB) President Müberra Eresin said: “MICE tourism is a priority and an indispensable area for our country. Together with all our infrastructure and superstructure capabilities, we have always voiced on every platform that congress and business tourism is a tremendous source of strength for our sector, and now, just as before, without losing our faith, we as the Association of Turkish Hoteliers continue to work to strengthen once again MICE tourism, one of the highest value-added tourism segments. We believe that the Istanbul Tourism Fair – which aims to enhance the international recognition and strength of the congress, meetings and events sector, just as in all types of our country’s tourism, to bring together tourism professionals from various countries and create new collaborations, and to promote new products and services – will make significant contributions to the development of inter-country tourism relations by further revealing the potential of tourism in every field.”

Also speaking at the opening ceremony of the fair were Dream Project CEO Volkan Ataman, WTTC Regional Director Andrew Brown, Tourism Investors Association of Turkey (TTYD) President Oya Narin, Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB) President Firuz Bağlıkaya, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (İTO) President Şekib Avdagiç, Turkish Airlines (THY) Head of Domestic Sales Aşkın Cantimur, Director General of Promotion of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Timuçin Güler, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Deputy Governor of Istanbul Özlem Bozkurt Gevek, and  Deputy Prime Minister of the TRNC Fikri Ataoğlu. 

The fair will be open to visitors until 5 October 2023.