Uzakrota Balkan Travel Summit is held in Belgrade on March 10 with the support of the Turkish Airlines Corporate Club and Belgrade Tourist Organization.
The event, which first organized by Uzakrota in 2017, held for the second time at Mona Plaza Belgrade Hotel. The event welcomed 30 speakers and more than 300 tourism professionals.
Tourism and Health Former Minister of Turkey Bulent Akarcalı, Serbia Tourism Deputy Minister Renate Pindzo, Belgrade Tourism Office Director Miodrag Popovic, Turkey-Serbian Ambassador Tanju Bilgiç, Singer and TV Star Ivana Sert attended the summit that covered topics such as “Today and Future of Online Platforms”, “The Power of Emerging Markets and Online Platforms”, “Traveling Groups and Marketing Strategies of the Future”, “The Effect of Payment Platforms on the End User” and “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; “Customer’s Holiday Preferences” many issues such as were discussed.
Speaking at the opening speech of the event, Former Minister of Tourism and Health Bülent Akarcalı said that Uzakrota has continued to contribute more than US$1 billion to the tourism sector with 10 events organized in the past years.
Serbia’s Deputy Tourism Minister Renata Pindzo said that such an important event is very valuable in Serbia and they want to make Serbia a tourism center by giving more value to the event in the coming years.
CEO Tourist Organization of Belgrade Miodrag Popovic said that “crisis management” was carried out in all Balkan countries due to the epidemic. “We shared our experiences and together we will try to get out of crisis management even stronger and better,”.
Uzakrota Travel Summit, which was a Turkish event at the beginning, has become one of the top 10 tourism events in the world in recent years. Organized with the support of TOB and Turkish Airlines Corporate Club, the distant Balkan Travel Summit brought together travel agencies, airlines, hotels, bloggers and companies that offer logistics services to the tourism industry.