MUSIAD TOURISM SECTOR BOARD VISITED THE REGIONAL TOURISM IN ORDU, GIRESUN AND TRABZON

MUSIAD Tourism Sector Board Chairman Murat Kundak, MUSIAD Ordu Branch Chairman Servet Altaş, Ordu Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Uğur Toparlak met with MUSIAD Tourism Sector Board management and MUSIAD Ordu members at Olive Restaurant.

The program started with the opening speeches of MUSIAD Tourism Sector Board President Murat Kundak and Ordu Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Uğur Toparlak and continued with the members introducing themselves and their companies. MUSIAD Tourism Sector Board started to focus on tourism activities in the country as well as abroad and made its first visit to Ordu in this context. Expressing that such activities will be focused on in other provinces, Tourism Sector Board Chairman Murat Kundak stated that such meetings are planned and will continue in order to determine the tourism needs on site and to consult with our members in the region to determine and develop new strategies. Ordu Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Uğur Toparlak and MUSIAD Ordu Branch President Servet Altaş stated that this visit will contribute to Ordu tourism. Expressing his satisfaction for this visit, Ordu Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Uğur Toparlak stated that Ordu is a very open place for tourism and mentioned the great importance of exploring its sea, nature and plateaus in terms of tourism, and emphasized that the visit was very valuable. He expressed his gratitude by expressing that the support of both sides for the development of the region in the name of tourism is irresistible. At the end of the meeting, Murat Kundak, Chairman of MUSIAD Tourism Sector Board, presented a plaque to Ordu Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Uğur Toparlak.

In the continuation of the visits, a trip was organized to explore the region under the auspices of MUSIAD Ordu in order to determine the tourism needs in Ordu on site, and consultations were held on what needs to be done. Stating that they left behind a beautiful organization with the delegation from MUSIAD, Servet Altaş said, "As a result of the consultations, we will make the biggest tourism investment in Ordu, which will be supported by our MUSIAD Headquarters, on a land of at least 100 decares on our Çambaşı plateau. We will serve Ordu tourism with a boutique hotel before the investment. We have also promised to make charter flights to Ordu as of June. We have full faith that our city, which gets a bigger share of the tourism cake every year, will come to better places with the investments of MUSIAD." In the next stop of the delegation, a visit was made to the governorship of Ordu with the members of MUSIAD Tourism SK and members of the Ordu Branch. Ordu Governor Mr. Tuncay Sonel expressed his gratitude for the visit and stated that tourism activities have a great contribution to Ordu tourism and the country's economy.

On the second day of the visits, the first visit was made to MÜSAID Giresun President Hakan Korkmaz and after the consultations, gifts were presented. In the continuation of the program, members of MUSIAD Trabzon met in Trabzon to consult. At the meeting where possible cooperation with members operating in the tourism sector and other fields were discussed, a presentation was made about the structuring and activities of the Headquarters Tourism Sector Board. After the members introduced themselves, mutual cooperation opportunities were discussed. The meeting, which had a wide participation, was instrumental in the emergence of new commercial relations and increased recognition between the members of MUSIAD Headquarters and Trabzon branch. After the meeting, MUSIAD Tourism Sector Board President Murat Kundak presented an orphan guardianship certificate to Trabzon Branch President Zafer Ofluoğlu and Trabzon Tourism Sector Board President Çetin Şahin.