CULTURE
Azerbaijan to attend international tourism forum and fair in Spain
Baku, January 16 (AZERTAC). Rector of the Tourism Institute Jafar Jafarov will represent Azerbaijan in the Exceltur`s 6th Tourism Leadership Forum and International Tourism Trade Fair FITUR in Spain`s capital Madrid on January 17-22.
According to Azerbaijan Tourism Institute, the forum to be held on the topic concerning tourism driving growth and employment: policies to stimulate competitiveness, will bring together representatives of authoritative organization of the world.
The Azerbaijani delegation is expected to hold several meetings with representatives of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and heads of leading tourism enterprises in Spain and the Spanish Tourist Quality Institute as part of the visit.
Fitur is a meeting point for tourism professionals in which they can establish lines of action, strategies and business alliances to energize and consolidate the tourism business, innovating to answer the changing demands of the market.
At the last edition, confirming the trend towards recovery in the industry, 10,434 exhibiting companies from 166 countries/ regions and 209,260 visitors between tourism professionals and the general public, met during Fitur to transform leisure into business and business into development for those destinations that welcome millions of travellers. Moreover among the participation figures of note was the presence of 7,726 journalists from 59 countries, a turnout that demonstrates the importance of FITUR on the international circuit of tourism sector fairs.