T he recent past has certainly not been easy Nevertheless we have still been able to achieve the majority of our ob jectives reports Bülent Ünal chair man of Tüyap Fairs and Exhibitions the leading Turkish trade fair company with six trade fair centres around the country One of the things we have done is make changes to our event calendar In addition we have made changes to trade fairs in order to adapt to the new situation Although the turbu lence has resulted in a number of problems the company achieved its budget targets in the first six months of 2016 There were a number of successful premieres including the large furniture fair that switched venue to Tüyap and two sport leisure exhibitions in Istanbul A trade fair for marble blocks launched in Bursa at the end of 2015 is being held again in November the Black Sea city of Samsun has also hosted two new trade fairs this year and an industry event has been held for the first time in Kocaeli On the oth er hand all Tüyap s events in the city of Di yarbakir in southern Turkey had to be can celled regrets Ünal Our efforts there had contributed greatly to economic and social progress in the region Business sentiment in Turkey is waver ing Negative reports about terrorist attacks or conflicts with neighbouring countries are inevitably unsettling as they would be any where else asserts Ünal Consequently there has been a fall in the numbers of visi tors coming from EU countries On the one hand there is a state of emergency in Turkey continues Ünal On the other the government is making sustained efforts to come up with new economic incentives and keep exchange rates under control Addi tional impetus could come from the reconcil iation under way with Russia and Israel All in all Tüyap s chairman takes a very opti mistic view of the future Regardless of the turbulent situation both in Turkey it self and in the region as a whole there is one thing of which Bülent Ünal is convinced Turkey contin ues to be the most important most secure business hub in Eurasia and the country is doing everything it can to consolidate its status as such The company has done its homework for the coming year Our budget for 2017 is already in place affirms Ünal Tüyap s trade fair cen tre in Istanbul is building two new exhibition halls offering an addi tional 20 000 square metres of space And the trade fair hotel in Istanbul is getting an additional 400 rooms next year bringing its total to 630 Signif icant activity is also taking place elsewhere We have recently set new projects in motion that will be taking place in Izmir This city on the Aegean coast which has a popu lation of almost three million is the third biggest host of trade fairs in Turkey reveals Ünal Trade fairs of particular significance to the Aegean region in south western Turkey are planned covering the timber industry metal working packaging and plastics Tüyap also intends to become more active online in fu ture We are developing software for use on mobile devices says Ünal www tuyap com tr PB 46 TradeFairs Internation al 5 2016 INTERNATIONAL TURKEY Carrying on despite the turbulence The trade fair industry has not been unaffected by recent political developments the failed coup and the bomb attacks The trade fair company Tüyap has learned how to cope with the situation Die Expomed Eurasia öffnet Ende März wieder ihre Türen in Istanbul Expomed Eurasia will open its gates in Istanbul again in late March 2017 Ph ot o T üy ap

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