TÜROB Vice President Gür Attended the HİSER Conference and the HİB Board Meeting.

Hediye Güral Gür, Vice President of TÜROB – the Association of Turkish Hoteliers, attended the HİB Board Meeting following the HİSER Clustering Conference held in Istanbul under the chairmanship of Minister of Trade Prof. Dr. Ömer Bolat and the Chairman of the Board of the Services Exporters' Association (HİB), Şekib Avdagiç.

The HİSER Clustering Conference, held for the first time by the Ministry of Trade, drew intense interest from exporters and representatives of the services sector. Speaking at the conference, Minister of Trade Prof. Dr. Ömer Bolat stated the following: "As the Ministry of Trade, under the support programme of the 'Project to Enhance the Competitiveness of the Services Sector,' which we have been implementing effectively for ten years, we continue to strengthen and make our services exports sustainable. We regard the services sector, which makes significant contributions to our country's achievement of its export targets and to the reduction of our external current account deficit, as a strategic area in terms of our global trade vision. In this regard, just as with all our exporters, we will continue to work in close cooperation with our services sector as well and to resolutely sustain our support that will increase the global competitiveness of our sectors. As Türkiye, while reaching the highest levels in the history of the Republic in goods and services exports in 2024, our services trade ran a surplus of 62 billion dollars. During this process, the external current account deficit also improved significantly, declining to 10.1 billion dollars. In parallel with the positive developments in our services sectors, our annualized services exports reached 116.5 billion dollars in the January–April 2025 period; our year-end target is 121 billion dollars. The successes of our exporters in the global trade market and their strengthening of their positions make significant contributions to Türkiye's global vision. In line with this vision, both as the government and as the Ministry of Trade, we will continue resolutely to support our exporters. In this direction, the HİSER Project, which we launched with the slogan 'Different Paths, Same Route' and which includes a support process spanning three to five years, will, in addition to its financial contribution, strengthen sectoral cooperation and a culture of acting together, making significant contributions to building the future. To date, through HİSER projects, we have supported nearly 1,000 of our enterprises, helping them reach export-capable levels. Our main goal is to create new global brands belonging to Türkiye under this project."

At the Board Meeting held following the conference under the chairmanship of HİB President Şekib Avdagiç, views and recommendations on expectations regarding services exports were presented to Minister Bolat, who was also present. TÜROB Vice President, Board Member of the Services Exporters' Association, and Chair of the Committee on Tourism and Travel-Related Services Hediye Güral Gür also presented her recommendations to Minister Bolat at this meeting, in line with the expectations and needs of the tourism sector.