STOCKHOLM
The gathering took place at Elite Hotel in Stockholm attended by Swedish and Turkish Cypriot travel agencies, Turkish ambassador to Sweden Zergun Koruturk, TRNC's representative in Stockholm Damla Guclu, other officials and journalists.
Ayse Donmezer, chairperson of Association of Turkish Cypriot Hotels, delivered a speech on tourism potential of TRNC and said that tourists came to TRNC for their holiday by Ercan Airport or via Larnaca. The number of Swedish tourists who arrived at Ercan Airport reached 1,266 and via Larnaca was 11,164 in the first nine months of 2012, she said.
Donmezer said that TRNC wanted to join tourism fairs in Goteborg and Helsinki every year, but Greek Cypriots prevented it.
