Turkey for enhancing air frequency with India

Turkey today advocated for more flight operation between it and India to increase tourist traffic as the existing flights are inadequate to cope with the demand.
Turkey Ambassador to India, Burak Akcapar, who met Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi here, raised the issue of enhancing air frequency for increasing tourist traffic between the two countries.
Akcapar said existing flights between the two countries are unable to cope with the demand.
The ambassador suggested that the Tourism Ministry and Turkish authorities can undertake joint promotion to increase two-way traffic between India and Turkey.
Turkey is an important inbound tourist source market for India. In 2011, a total number of 17,329 tourists from Turkey visited India.

Turkish Airlines is planning to spread their network in India with the possible code sharing with Air India. Aiming at attracting more tourists from Turkey, the tourism ministry is planning to carry out special promotions in the Turkish market this year, a release said.
The Bilateral Tourism Cooperation Agreement signed between India and Turkey in 1995 contains the provision for setting up a joint working group.
The first meeting of the India-Turkey Joint Committee on Tourism was held in Ankara in 2002 and the second meeting was held in New Delhi in 2006.