Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Beyoğlu district Ahmet Misbah Demircan, Vice President of TUROFED; Gürel Aydın, TUROB President Timur Bayındır and several representatives of Turkish travel industry attended the night.

Speaking at the dinner, Presftdent of TURSAB; Basaran Ulusoy said that Istanbul came to an important place in travel industry in last 50 years. Today’s position of Istanbul competing with world’s leading cities was just a dream that time. Ulusoy added that Mr. Topbaş has a big role at the success of Istanbul. Mr. Ulusoy presented a special vase to Mr. Topbaş during the dinner.

Topbaş said at the dinner that he and his team are working day and night for Istanbul. “At my first year as the mayor of Istanbul, I told to tourism professionals to bring their dream projects for Istanbul and offered them to work together on those projects,” added Topbaş.

Mr. Topbaş also informed travelers that the building of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and service building of ISKI (Istanbul's water supply and wastewater investments) will be sold in order to transform them into a hotel.

“We are going to build our new Municipality Building in Seyrantepe. All project is ready. When the new building constructed and we move there, we will sell the old one. Both the municipality building and ISKI service building are very suitable to be a hotel” said Mr. Topbaş.