Turkey to Counter Financial Crisis Effects on Tourism by Cooperating with Greece

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3 November 2008 | Representatives of Turkey’s tourism sector are taking measures to boost the exchange of visitors with Greece, after the World Tourism Organisation announced that the global financial crisis is affecting tourism, which will result in an increase of visitors between neighbouring countries.

The union of Turkish hotel owners, entrepreneurs and investors is initiating a broader cooperation between Turkey and Greece in the area of tourism, the Turkish newspaper Sabah reported recently.

The focus of the cooperation between the two countries is the increase of religious and cultural tourism, the publication noted. A programme that envisions Greeks travelling to Turkey for baptisms, weddings and the Christmas holidays, will be presented in Athens this week, in the presence of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who is to serve as a symbol of the Orthodox world.

It is expected that such religion-themed tours will bring about one million Greek visitors to religious and cultural sites in Turkey, to which they feel connected, according to Sabah.

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