Launched as a travel blog in 2010 and guiding the world tourism sector with the tourism organizations it has organized since 2013, Uzakrota was selected as one of the 10 most influential tourism events in the world by the world’s largest travel companies in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, Uzakrota received an investment of €5 million from Wtatil.com, which has offices in cities such as Bangkok, Tirana, Istanbul and Izmir.
Uzakrota, currently based in Dublin, holds conferences in New York, London, Berlin, Belgrade, Istanbul and Baku that touch all areas of the tourism industry. In 2017, Uzakrota received an investment of ₺2 million over a valuation.
Gokhan Erdogan, the founder of Uzakrota, said, “The conferences that we started in 2013 in the conference hall of Bahcesehir University with 50 people have turned into conferences of 6,000 people with brands from all over the world, and we are holding these events in very important brand cities. With this investment, which will be used entirely for the growth of the company, we plan to expand our Dublin office, to establish different sub-brands in addition to Uzakrota, and to continue our activities that touch every aspect of the tourism sector. I would like to thank the Wtatil team and especially the owners of the company, Cihan Saray and Cansu Varlik.”
Cihan Saray, one of the partners of Wtatil, made a statement saying, “Uzakrota is one of the few organizations in the world, it was a brand that we have been following for a long time and have been actively involved in in the last years of this journey, and we want to raise it to ITB, WTM levels as further support. At the moment, we are in the happiness of meeting the two fastest growing companies in Turkiye and the world at a common point. A new story begins for us as well.”
6000 people from countries such as Mongolia, Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan, England, America, Singapore, UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Serbia and Germany participated in the event that was held in Istanbul in November. In 2023, the brand will organize events in Dublin on May 22, Belgrade on September 15, Baku on October 20 and Istanbul on November 24.
Source: Egirisim / Prepared by Irem Yildiz