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EMITT 2016: Santorini Reaches Out to Turkish Market
Posted On 29 Jan 2016
Santorini stand at EMITT 2016. Photo by GTP
Photo by Municipality of Thera
Aiming for Santorini to attract more travellers from Turkey and the markets of the eastern side of the Mediterranean & the Middle East, the Municipality of Thera presented the Cycladic island as an all year round tourism destination at the East Mediterranean Tourism and Travel Exhibition – EMITT in Istanbul, which opened on Thursday.
Celebrating its 20th year, EMITT is recognized as one of the top five tourism exhibitions in the world and attracts visitors mainly from Turkey’s tourism industry and Middle Eastern countries.
“The Turkish market is particularly interesting to Santorini as Turkish visitors have a high education and income level and are a great new market for our island”, an announcement by the municipality said.
Photo by Municipality of Thera
At the Santorini stand at EMITT, representatives of the municipality, headed by Loukas Bellonias, informed Turkish travel agents and professionals on the latest initiative “Santorini: Year-round Destination”. A collaborative effort between the Municipality of Thera and the island’s enterprises, the initiative sees to attract visitors during the off-season through a series of actions that include the promotion of alternative forms of tourism.
Turkish professionals and visitors to the stand of Santorini also received information on the island’s gastronomy, culture/history and activities.
EMITT 2016 will run until January 31.
The Greek Travel Pages (GTP) is a media partner to EMITT 2016.
Hello,
We visited Santorini in October 2023. I dreamt of seeing this Island for most of my life and finally my dream came zrue when I brought my family here for a week long holiday. The visit was unreal, such a dramatic beautiful nature and tough environment for the wildlife at the same time.
I wanted to enquire about the vast amount of rubbish everywhere we visited. We drove to all beautiful nature spots and found rubbish everywhere. So heart breaking. We have not seen many bins and no one person cleaning. When we visited Portugeese, Spanish, Norwegian and Italian Islands, they were spotless, we could really see they are loved by the native people. Many people of Santorini make massive effort to improve their houses, but the government of this Island has to step up to clean it.
Please love your Island and make an effort to show of it’s amazing beauty with no rubbish.
Many Thanks