Wednesday, 30 January 2013

EMITT Istanbul Ranked 5th Among the Tourism Fairs in 2012


With nearly 30 million visitors EMITT Fair, which plays an important role in the promotion of Turkey, took the 5th place in the tourism fairs list in 2012. East Mediterranean International Tourism and Travel Fair EMITT was created by Ekin Fuar in 90’s, which is considered to be the infancy period of the Turkish tourism, and has started a new era in tourism fairs.

EMITT Fair, which got the finger on the pulse of tourism in Turkey since 1997, has managed, in a brief period of time, to become one of the renowned fairs in the world. Today being in the 5th largest fair in the world, EMITT kept the pace with Turkey’s growth in tourism and proved its strength by becoming one of the most prominent fairs in its target area consisting of Mediterranean, Middle East, South East Europe and Asia.

EMITT fair also catapulted Turkey as the sixth most visited country in the world in 2012. The Director of Ekin Fuar, Hacer Aydın states that the number of foreign tourist visiting Turkey was 9.586.000 and the amount of revenues generated $9.161.000.000; and as of 2011 the number of tourist visiting Turkey had reached to 29.343.000 and the revenues to $23 billion, and stresses the important role of EMITT, who for 17 years brought the professionals of tourism sector to Turkey and held many grand fairs, in this success.

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