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Türkiye's largest tech, space festival opens its doors in Izmir

The five-day festival held at Izmir's Çığlı Airport will offer its visitors a diverse array of technology and space-themed events, ranging from air shows, exhibitions and workshops, to competitions, vertical wind tunnels, simulations and planetarium shows. It has been jointly organized every year by the Turkish Technology Team (T3) Foundation and the country's Ministry of Industry and Technology since 2018, in cooperation with other ministries and dozens of other public institutions, private companies and universities. Exciting shows in the sky are also scheduled to take place, performed by the Turkish Air Force's Turkish Stars aerobatic demonstration team, as well as the Bayraktar Akıncı and TB2 drones developed by Turkish company Baykar, and Anka by Turkish Aerospace Inc., another tech giant in the country. Also slated to make appearances are the Turkish air show team F-16 SoloTürk, as well as the Hürküş trainer aircraft, BELL-429 helicopter, paramotors, gyrocopters and the T-129 Atak helicopter. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the festival, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır emphasized the role of youth while building Türkiye of the future, noting that the steps undertaken in the past five years demonstrate the beginning of a great social mobilization. “Just as we achieved a significant breakthrough in the defense industry, we will also achieve great successes in all fields, from environmental energy to climate, from health to tourism, and from barrier-free life technologies through the technology initiatives established by our youth," Kacır said. Emphasizing that they broke unique records in the world with 337,000 teams and 1 million competitors this year, Kacır said, "We hosted a total of 3.5 million visitors in Istanbul and Ankara. We are grateful for our nation's interest in Teknofest and for encouraging our youth in line with our ‘National Technology Move’ goals." The first edition of the event this year was held at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport in May, welcoming a record of 2.5 million visitors. The second was held earlier in September in the capital Ankara, attracting nearly 1 million people. Teknofest is being held with the participation of 121 institutions, public- and private-sector organizations, academic institutions and media companies.

Tourism sector will grow with Digital Transformation

HOMS Global A.Ş General Manager Gökhan Uçarkaya, who spoke at the panel called 'Burada Turizm Çok', which brought together the tourism sector, made a presentation titled “Digital Transformation in Tourism”. Gökhan Uçarkaya emphasized that developing technology is now leading people to mobility and that digitalization is also important in the tourism sector. Uçarkaya said, “As the Gonca group, we have been in the IT hotel and tourism sector for about 25 years. We have experienced many different things in 25 years, innovations have come. 'Getir' appeared, channels such as booking.com and book engine appeared. It's been quick to get to where we are today. But it was also difficult to adapt. Every industry needs different technologies. The pandemic actually taught us something, now mobility has gained importance. For example, it is possible to order easily in restaurants with QR codes. In the light of our experience, we have determined that there are basic things required for the technology to be established in Turkish tourism. It is possible to summarize these elements as loyalty, operations and income. We have seen that things do not work without loyalty, without proper management of the operation and without income. We have to integrate it into technology. The tourism industry is a 24-hour live business. Think of hotels as a town with 3,000 customers and 1,000 employees. We invested in mobile to keep them together and operate the process. We moved this business out of the Gonca group and established a structure called HOMS Global (Hotel, Hospitality Management Solutions). We have determined our aim as making the product a brand in all destinations in the world and carrying this mobility abroad with Turkish initiative and intelligence.” WE EXPORT TECHNOLOGY Noting that as HOMS Global, they have become an R&D and P&D company by including the tourism sector components, Gökhan Uçarkaya gave the following information: “We have developed a cooperation with a Technopark and combined with those who receive training on tourism, we have become an R&D and P&D company. We have made it a new business model on exporting technology to the world. We wanted to create a technological pool and platform that would unite tourism professionals, academics and students who may be in the service sector. We developed new products by bringing together the spin off projects in Tourism Tech, which was made by Bilim University in Antalya. As you know, investment in tourism requires large sums of money. If tourism managers and academics can internalize the rapid cycle on the technology side, bringing beautiful and profitable models to life will be a big step for the sector.”

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Türkiye's largest tech, space festival opens its doors in Izmir

Tourism sector will grow with Digital Transformation