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20
April

We Exchanged Ideas with Sun Express on Tourism

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Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu convened with Jens Bischof, CEO of SunExpress, a partner corporation of the Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, and exchanged ideas about 2018 tourism season.
The Mayor Kocaoğlu reminded that they have launched significant investments and projects on development of tourism in the city and the fair organization initiative has a key role among these initiatives and underlined his belief that publicity support provided to Izmir Tourism Association will significantly pay off, particularly in the European countries.

The Mayor Kocaoğlu thanked the CEO of SunExpress due to his contributions in the city tourism and explained his views on “making Izmir a HUB”. Jens Bischof highlighted that his airlines company schedules the highest number of international flights from Izmir and they have been preparing to offer direct flights between Izmir and Lyon, one of the most popular travel destinations of France, as of June 18, and they will start offering direct and scheduled flights from Izmir to 25 cities around Europe, including Lyon.

Mr. Bischof mentioned that SunExpress supports tourism activities in Izmir and tries to connect Izmir with key destinations in middle distance as much as possible and added “Last year, 1.3 million of total 2.4 million international flight passengers arriving in Izmir flied with us. For this summer season, we broke a historical record by offering over 1 million 300 thousand seats on Izmir flights and we increased our capacity by 13 percent”.
 
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