Thursday, 25 June 2015 17:33

Another successful project in Sustainable Tourism Development

We are glad to announce the successful closure of the Technical Assistance for Sustainable Tourism Development in Mardin. By strengthening local capacity to improve the competitiveness of the tourism industry, the objectives of the project designed to bring social and economic benefit to people and businesses in Turkey’s South-Eastern Province of Mardin were fully achieved. 

We want to thank our team and all members from the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, the European Commission, the EUD to Turkey, tourism agencies and the community of Mardin for making this happen. Especially to the Mardin Governor Dr. Ömer Faruk Koçak, who pointed out how “Mardin was home to various cultures and civilizations and had become the center of art events” and praised the great achievement of our team of more than 50 experts who were involved in the project. It has been a memorable experience and a great opportunity to promote sustainable tourism in Turkey. We are looking forward to implementing more projects in this beautiful country.

Following the aim of bringing social and economic benefit to people and businesses in Turkey’s South-Eastern Province of Mardin as part of the tourism strategy of Turkey, we also contributed to the objectives of "leveraging the rates of employment and regional development" and becoming a "world brand in tourism and a major destination in the list of top five countries, receiving the highest number of tourism and highest tourism revenues by 2023". We are optimistic in achieving this goal and we are glad for having being part of it.