BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
11/12/2007
Belarus PM holds Turkey up as shining example
The prime minister of Belarus, Sergei Sidorsky has held Turkey up as a shining example of utilising a country's resources to the best of its abilities in order to fulfil its tourism potential.
While expressing disappointment with the results that the eastern European country had seen from their tourism initiatives, he highlighted Turkey as a country from which lessons could be learned, according to the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus.
Mr Sidorsky was speaking at a session of the Council of Ministers Presidium which was focusing on the implementation of the national tourism development programme of 2006 to 2010.
He pointed to Turkey's use of intensive tourism for business development quoting the figure that 67 per cent of the national product is generated by the sector.
Referring to the landlocked location of the state, Mr Sidorsky explained that Turkey's success was not entirely down to possessing coastlines on three different seas.
"It is not because there is the sea in Turkey," he stressed.
Turkey's income from tourism was ranked at 8th highest in the world in 2005 at ?8.9 billion, according to the World Trade Organisation.
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