Event & Entertainment Management Association (EEMA), India’s apex association of the events and experiential marketing industry announced a major tie-up with Turkey’s largest MICE operator, Inventum Global to open the doors to Antalya for the hosting of Indian outbound events, weddings and corporate meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions.
“EEMA in partnership with Inventum Global is hosting the first Global Leadership Retreat of India’s fast-growing event industry with a view to building a long term partnership to promote Turkey with focus on Antalya is looking at India’s outbound events, weddings, corporate meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions. The event scheduled to be from May 28 – June 1 in Antalaya will see the presence of around 100 companies from India, 120 people each from Ukraine and Russia, the potential source markets for Turkey,” Sabbas Joseph, President, EEMA told T3 on the sideline of a Press Meet.
Announcing the partnership, the Turkish Ambassador Şakir Özkan Torunlar said, “Antalya is one of the world’s most popular destinations for MICE projects and India is the perfect partner to work with to build sustainable tourism that will help both the business of Antalya and Turkey overall. On behalf of the government and the people of Turkey I welcome India’s event industry to our country.”
The Retreat will focus on insights into the future of the experiential and events business, weddings, leadership skills development, rejuvenation and bonding and most important on familiarization with Antalya as a destination opportunity as it is introduced by Inventum Global to the Indian event industry.
Bunyat Ozpak, Managing Partner of Inventum Global said, “EEMA is our partner of choice and the business community and the people of Antalya are laying a red carpet for the Indian event industry to host memorable weddings and events in our country. We’ve already had some exciting experiences helping host weddings and corporate mice events. We are looking forward to a strong and deep partnership that is built on a mutually beneficial model. Hotels, event infrastructure providers, decorators, designers, venue operators and other facility organisers are looking forward to the visit of the Indian events community.”
