The East Mediterranean International Travel & Tourism Exhibition (EMITT), the fifth largest tourism exhibition in the world, brought together 4,500 exhibitors from 62 countries and welcomed over 128,000 visitors. The number of the visitors rose by 12% while the number of exhibitors grew by 11% compared to 2011. The event has held on 9^th – 12^th February 2012.

The 16^th annual edition of EMITT hosted Argentina, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Slovenia and Venezuela for the first time at the 16th annual edition of the event.

Greece, South Africa Republic and the Russian Federation were also at the exhibition with a larger presence. As well as tourism professionals from all around the world, national tourism agencies, tour operators and hotels, and Turkish travel agencies who wish to showcase their countries and services to the Turkish market participated at the exhibition.

EMITT hosted many important business deals for 2012 onwards, involving thousands of tourism companies from all over Turkey. At the end of the exhibition, 60 percent of foreign exhibitors had signed their contract for EMITT 2013.

EMITT, organised by EKIN (part of the ITE Group), sponsored by THY-A.O., and in partnership with TUROFED-Turkish Hotels Federation and TYD-Tourism Investors Association, has increasing number of visitors, exhibitors and countries in comparison to previous years. The fast growth of the exhibition and the increased number of participating countries in EMITT each year demonstrates the high level of interest of the tourism world in Turkey.

For more information please visit the website: http://emittistanbul.com/