The Travel Agents Association of India is to hold its highly prestigious Diamond Jubilee Convention, the “Indian Travel Congress & Exhibition” at Istanbul, Turkey between 11th and 14th March 2012.

The event is being supported very strongly by the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism and the Turkish Indian Tourism Council (TITC) is lending its total support and effort to ensure that this prestigious event is a huge success.

Apart from making all arrangements for delegates’ accommodation, selecting a venue for the opening ceremony, conference facilities, and local sightseeing, TITC is also engaged in working out exciting post-convention familiarisation tours of Antalya, Cappadocia and Izmir for the visiting delegates.

The mega event, which is expected to attract a record number of participants, is slated to be held at the Green Park Pendik Hotel & Convention Centre. Istanbul is divided by the Bosphorus Straits into an Asian and a European side. The Green Park Hotel, with a great view of the Sea of Marmara, housing Istanbul’s largest convention centre, is located on the Asian side, not far from the Sabiha Gökcen Airport.

According to Mr Ozgur Ayturk, Culture & Tourism Counsellor at the Turkish Embassy at New Delhi, “I have every confidence that TAAI’s Diamond Jubilee Convention, to be held at Istanbul in March 2012 shall be its most successful convention ever. The Indian Travel Trade shall be very impressed not only by Istanbul’s fabled monuments and natural beauty but also by the exceedingly warm hospitality of the Turkish people. Those who visit other places like Cappadocia and Izmir or Antalaya are bound to be fascinated by them. I am confident that upon their return, these delegates shall greatly promote Turkey as a holiday and convention destination and thereby enhance people to people contacts between our two great countries.”