What should we pay attention to when purchasing a tour? TÜRSAB Board Member Yıldırım Taş warned holidaymakers about the points to consider when purchasing a holiday.

Check TÜRSAB Membership

With the arrival of summer, the demand for early booking and holiday opportunities began to increase. There is a lot of demand for boat trips abroad and to countries that do not require visas. YESAB Board Member Yıldırım Taş gave information about the points to be considered when purchasing a holiday: “First of all, you need to check whether the agency from which you will purchase a holiday is a member of TÜRSAB. There is a digital verification button on our members' websites. We also recommend holidaymakers who are planning to go on holiday to meet with agencies face to face. When purchasing a holiday, a contract is signed that protects both the consumer and the tour operator. They should make sure that they have a copy since it is signed with a wet signature. Each tour program has its own cancellation-refund procedure. Within the scope of this process, the duration varies between 60-90 days for ship tours, while the guest has the right to cancel the package up to one month in advance for intermediate tours. "If the canceled date is not within the penalty period, all travel agencies provide a refund," he said.

Search Conference Held in the Tourism Century Project

On the other hand, as TÜRSAB, we initiated the "Century of Tourism" project in order to spread tourism to 12 months and throughout the country and to ensure that 81 provinces receive the value they deserve in tourism. The first step of the project was taken in Burdur with the "Search Conference Burdur Meeting". Burdur Governor Türker Öksüz, Chairman of the Board of Directors Firuz Bağlıkaya, Provincial Culture and Tourism Director İbrahim Emre Gürsoy, District Governors, Mayors, TÜRSAB Board Members, TÜRSAB Regional Representative Board and Specialization Presidents, rectors, academicians and travel agency representatives attended the meeting. Speaking at the program, which will continue with academic meetings on the second day, Chairman of the Board of Directors Firuz Bağlıkaya stated that travel agencies are of vital importance for the creation of tourism dynamism and said, "We aim to implement our Tourism Century project, which started from Burdur, so that each city of our country can truly get the share it deserves from tourism." "We will continue our work with efforts all over the country," he said.

 

Source: HORECA TREND, Science and Health News Agency