THIRD AZERBAIJAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION “ TOURISM AND TRAVEL” DUE

07.04.2004 [17:20]
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On April 7, was held a press conference devoted to opening of the Third Azerbaijan International Exhibition “Tourism and travel” (AITF 2004) in the International Press Center.

Director of Company Iteca Caspian Farid Mammadov, opening the event, has thanked representatives of the ministry of youth, sports and tourism of Azerbaijan for support in preparation of the exhibition, having noted, that the organizer of action is the British exhibition company ITE Group Plc and its exclusive partner on the Caucasus, Company Iteca Caspian, and official support to the exhibition is rendered also by the World Tourist Organization, the Union of Development of the Tourist Industry of Azerbaijan and Commercial and Industrial Chamber of Azerbaijan.

More than 70 companies from 18 countries of the world attend the event. F. Mammadov has emphasized, that alongside with the commercial organizations, at the exhibition, have stands the corresponding ministries of Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ukraine, Dagestan, Austria and Egypt. According to director of the Iteca Caspian, the general area of the exposition has increased for 55 percent, in this connection the exhibition is carried out in the Sports -Concert Complex after Heydar Aliyev.

The companies from France, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Malta and Switzerland will accept the most active participation in AITF 2004, and representatives of Seychelles and Thailand have arrived on the exhibition for the first time.

Specially will arrive here, the regional representative of the World Tourist Organization on Europe Luigi Kabrini.

In turn, the representative of central administrative board of tourism of the ministry of youth, sports and tourism of Azerbaijan Khanoglan Gulaliyev has noted, that the policy of open doors pursued by the leadership of the Azerbaijan Republic, and also successful economic reforms allow citizens of our country to expand sphere of the dialogue with the world community. First of all, it concerns to development of tourism, both foreign, and internal.

H. Gulaliyev underlined the importance of the state program of social and economic development of regions on 2004 - 2008, confirmed with the recent Decree of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic. He noted that exhibition AITF will bring in the essential contribution to popularization not only international, but also internal tourism, and would open remarkable sights of Azerbaijan for visitors of the country, and also create conditions for establishment and expansions of business contacts in the international tourism.

The number of foreign visitors, which are interested in Azerbaijan, its history and culture, national features, and traditions of its people, from year to year grows. Tourist exhibition AITF organized on the eve of summer is called to develop new business contacts and partnership, to involve the new international companies in the country, thus, to increase a stream of foreign investments, and also to give opportunity of choice of places of rest to larger audience of the population.

THIRD AZERBAIJAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION “ TOURISM AND TRAVEL” DUE

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