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İkon Congress & Meeting

When we founded IKON in 1991, our primary motive was the considerably poor share of Istanbul from international congress tourism. Since then, IKON Tourism has successfully organized many large scale events, serving more than 200.000 congress participants.

Through Turkey’s transition to the European Union, IKON’s target is to orient Turkish convention industry towards Europe and be awarded with many congress organizations in European cities.

“Fair and exhibition services” of many congresses taken on board by IKON were successfully conducted to date and IKON has established a separate fair organization company and team in 2001.

In addition to congress and fair organizations, IKON has been successfully performing event management activities and achieving new projects.

IKON Inc. Chairman Ali Güreli is one of the founding members of Turkish Hotel Association. He has acted as chairman of the Turkish Hotel Association between 1994-2001 and he is currently the honorary chairman. In 1997 within the TUGEV (Tourism Development Foundation) organization where he was chairman, he has pioneered in the foundation of ICVB (Istanbul Convention & Visitors Bureau) with the objective of marketing Istanbul as “an entire city” for the purpose of developing and increasing congress tourism.

IKON Tourism, together with the national professional association TURSAB (Association of Turkish Travel Agencies) is also member of international establishments such as ICCA (International Congress & Convention Association) and SKAL. Through such memberships, IKON keeps itself up to dated with the developments and innovations in congress tourism worldwide.

IKON Tourism is one of the founders and partners of Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Centre operating firm UKTAŞ and KOMER/ Kuşadası Congress Centre.

Our Corporate Standarts

İKON’s concept of service is not limited just to answer the routine requirements of customers. Our concept of service includes taking on responsibility, meeting challenges with a smile, and to be flexible and innovative to meet and exceed expectations. Thus, we establish a strong cooperation between the congress chairman, congress executive board and İKON personnel and achieve success together.
We achieve success in our management skills by delivering the best and finest services . However, for true excellence we rely on the individual skills as well as the team work İKON brings together.

We try hardest to provide you the right service at the right time from beginning to end.

We use state of the art technologies to provide quick, accurate and time sensitive reports.

We prepare to offer excellent services to congress delegates for registration, accommodation, tour details and other topics in order to meet each and every expectations of the delegates .

We serve in global markets to meet your requirements with evolving technologies . We continue our research and develop our meeting management capacity and technical skills in order to achieve this technology and maintain our leadership.

At IKON, we offer you more than service. We want to be a part of your success.

Since early 90’s, IKON has been working meet and exceed client expectations. While we listen, take on responsibilities and take care of all types of details, you can focus on creating a first class program.

We tell you what you need before you tell us what you desire. Thus, we achieve an extremely professional level for the conduct of your meeting.

We rely on our staff – we have confidence in our experience!

News
  • Get ready to spoil yourself!

    The Sofa Hotel, situated in Nişantaşı, is inviting guests to a brand new and different experience. The hotel where every need you may have has been considered, the moment you go through its doors, offering distinctive services customized for you specifically, is soon to open its doors.

    Istanbul’s fashion, shopping and entertainment district, Nişantaşı will also be the host to The Sofa Hotel, as Turkey’s first and only HIP hotel. Having designed the Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton hotels as well, the hotel bears the signature of architect Sinan Kafadar and will host its guests with the HIP (Highly Individual Place) service concept that is becoming increasingly popular worldwide.

    Nişantaşı Otelcilik CEO Ali Güreli, who imported the concept of HIP hotels into Turkey states that they plan to provide personal customized services with different features in terms of design and style. Güreli comments, “at The Sofa Hotel we are going to guess the needs of our guests beforehand and supply the services that they require”.

    For further information www.thesofahotel.com


  • Skålite Quality Award
    Skålite Quality Award organized by Istanbul SKÅL Club, was presented at its annual award ceremony held at Ciragan Palace on November 8th. IKON-Setur-Vip-Visitur (İSEVV) Consortium  received  2005 Skalite Award Travel Agency


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