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Turkish minister: Iran-Turkey Tourist Commission to be activated |
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Monday, 19 June 2006
Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Atilla Koc said that the Iran-Turkey Tourist Commission will start activities in the current year.
Speaking at a meeting with managers of tour agencies in Tabriz Sunday night, he said that although a tourist agreement was signed between the two sides in 2004 no visible activity has so far taken place.
He referred to his invitation of the deputy head of Iran's Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization to visit Turkey and hoped that after the deputy's trip their countries' joint commission would officially become active.
Koc said that the invitation was intended to prepare the legal ground for further expansion of bilateral relations in the tourism sector.
He noted that although the commission has still to start activities, Iranian and Turkish officials in charge are bound to disuss their tourism prospects.
The Turkish minister referred to the opening of Turkey's Cultural and Tourist Attache Office in Iran as one of the outcomes of the exchange of ideas between the two sides.
"The first exhibition introducing Turkey's tourist potentials to Iranians is scheduled to be held in Iran in the current year," he said, adding that similar exhibitions have been held in Middle East countries.
Turning to the decisive role of the private sector of both states in the expansion of their mutual tourism ties, he said that according to the record of tourist exchanges a growing trend in this respect has been on since 1998.
The Turkish minister said that some one million Iranian tourists visited his country over the past year, and hoped that closer cooperation between tour agencies of the two sides will increase the figure to 1.3 million.
IRNA Monday June 19, 2006
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Monday, 19 June 2006
Iran
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