The Ministry of Culture & Tourism of the Republic of Turkey and Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) conducted Destination Turkey workshops and B2B interactions in six Indian cities from February 24-29, 2020. The roadshow series began at Kolkata and was followed by session in Jaipur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai. The event aimed for increasing culture and tourism ties with India.
At the inaugural of every session, there was a presentation by H Deniz Ersoz, Culture & Tourism Counselor, of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, who presented Turkey as an attractive destination for the Indian market with its UNESCO world heritage sites, beautiful scenery and fabulous gastronomy. He also presented the statistics of foreign arrivals in Turkey which was counted as almost 52 million in 2019, the Indian visitor’s footfall was more than 230,000, 56% increase from that in 2018. In 2020, Turkey tourism expects 300,000 Indian arrivals.
“The 6 city Turkey Tourism Roadshow received a stupendous response from the travel trade and the quality of B2B meetings truly reflect the potential of India’s outbound market to Turkey,” Jyoti Mayal, President, TAAI, said.
