The Travel Turkey Izmir Tourism Fair, which will be held on 9 - 12 December 2010 at the Izmir International Fairground, prepares to host tourism professionals from around the world and from Turkey's many unique destinations.

The fair, aiming to become the leading venue in 2010 for a high number of international visitors, will introduce touristic treasures and different destinations around Izmir and Turkey to domestic and foreign tourism investors, agencies, purchasers and final consumers planning vacations. The Fair, as it does every year, will host many visitors from neighboring countries.

Purchasers from the tourism sector will be hosted in the scope of the fair

In the scope of Travel Turkey Izmir 2010 Tourism fair, tour operators and purchasers of travel agencies from such countries as Greece, Spain, Croatia, Montenegro, Qatar, Kosovo, Russia, Italy, Egypt, Bosnia Herzegovina, UAE and Iran have been invited to the fair to cooperate with participant companies under the tourism project, "Hosted Buyer Program".

In the frame of this special program, the workshop area established at the fair ground will enable face to face negotiations to take place between foreign purchasers and stand-owning tourism businessmen. With the business platform established in such a manner, the objective is to facilitate, within a professional environment, business connections between domestic and foreign tourism businessmen and to have contracts issued between the parties, whereby the country's tourism revenues will be increased. The program, supported by Turkish Airlines and Swissotel Grand Efes Hotel, is expected to include international purchasers from 21 destinations.

New sections and international participants will draw attention

As Travel Turkey Izmir has grown each year since the date of its first event, this year will surely continue the tradition of success with the introduction of special new sections such as "Boutique Hotels", "Adventure, Sport, Diving Tourism" and "Health Tourism". Ordu and Osmaniye's "Partner Cities", Zagreb's (Croatia) "International Partner City" will participate in the fair and such countries as Thailand, Macedonia, Libya, Iraq, Tanzania and Ethiopia and the Development Agencies of Eastern Anatolia, Serhat, Karacadağ and North East, will participate for the first time.

At this year's fair, where different destinations from around Turkey and the world will be introduced to the people of Izmir and to visitors from neighboring cities, the last two days of the fair will feature special activities organized by the participant companies for the customers, such as food presentations, lotteries and special dance performances.

Turkish Airlines and Anadolujet will participate as "Airline Sponsors", Swissotel Grand Efes Hotel will participate as "Accommodation Main Sponsor", Hürriyet will participate as "Press Sponsor" and Eastern Anatolia Development Agency will participate as "Gala Sponsor" of the fair, which is being organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. The fair hosted 435 participant companies from 17 countries and 14,829 visitors from 36 countries last year.

Travel Turkey Izmir 2010 Tourism Fair and Conference is expected to be draw more than 500 participants from almost 20 countries.