Saturday, 4 July 2009The Turkmen tourism minister expressed his country's willingness to make use of Turkey's tourism experiences.
Gurbanmammet Ilyasov, the head of the Turkmen State Committee for Sports and Tourism, visited the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya, and said Turkmenistan wanted to benefit from Turkey's tourism experiences.
Ilyasov met executives of the Mediterranean Tourist Hoteliers Association in Antalya, where he is actually visiting to see the tourism investments.
"We want to make use of your experiences to improve tourism in our country," Ilyasov said during the meeting.
There are actually 1,080 hotels in Antalya. There are tourism-documented 5,000 bed capacity, 13 golf courses, 55 football fields, three national parks, three national preservation sites, three marinas, 140,000-seat congress and meeting halls, 30 fair and sports centers in Antalya.
Around 8.5 million tourists visited Antalya in 2008, but only 339 of them were from Turkmenistan. |
Saturday, 4 July 2009
ANTALYA (A.A)
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