{"id":6451,"date":"2018-04-22T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2018-04-22T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:39:11","slug":"turkish-tourism-launches-the-year-of-troia-at-the-arabian-travel-market-2018-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/turkish-tourism-launches-the-year-of-troia-at-the-arabian-travel-market-2018-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Tourism Launches &#8220;The Year Of Troia&#8221; At The Arabian Travel Market 2018 In Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish Cultural and Tourism Office in Dubai launched \u201cThe Year of Troia (Troy)\u201d campaign at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) as part of the impressive Tourism Plan of Turkey &#8211; 2023 to expand tourism traffic into the country with a focus on particular areas, such as the country\u2019s northwestern region surrounding Canakkale province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe importance of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in contributing to Turkey\u2019s growing tourism industry is reflected by the fact that we have over fifty partners from Turkey participating in our pavilion at ATM this year,\u201d said Salih Ozer, Attach\u00e9 of Culture and Information, Turkey to the\u00a0UAE.<\/p>\n<p>In early January, the Turkish government declared 2018 the &#8220;Year of Troy&#8221; in honor of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the ancient city&#8217;s recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.It is the historic setting of the Trojan War, described in detail in Homer&#8217;s epic poems as &#8220;The Iliad&#8221; and &#8220;The Odyssey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, a variety of events are planned throughout the year. The new Troia Museum in western Canakkale Province is expected to draw one million tourists in its inaugural year. The 10,000 square meter museum will showcase archeological findings of the ancient city, including 24 gold pieces known as the treasures of Helen of Troy, which were returned to Turkey from the U.S. after 125 years.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood actors starring in \u201cTroy,\u201d the 2004 blockbuster such as Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, have been invited to visit the museum by Turkey&#8217;s Tourism and Culture Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6453\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/K-1-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/K-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/K-1-768x661.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/K-1-1024x882.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/K-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish Cultural and Tourism Office in Dubai launched \u201cThe Year of Troia (Troy)\u201d campaign at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) as part of the impressive Tourism Plan of Turkey &#8211; 2023 to expand tourism traffic into the country with a focus on particular areas, such as the country\u2019s northwestern region surrounding Canakkale province. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}