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thousand per capita income and 4 percent
unemployment. In this line, we are working in-
tensively in our Karatay University, Fair Center,
Vocational Education Center and Foreign
Trade Center.
One of the most important projects of ours is
New Fair Center for Konya. With the New Fair
Center we aim to make Konya a fair organi-
zation center.
Increasing visitor figure with every passing
year, the organized fairs contribute greatly to
the region and country economy.
With the total of 86 thousand sq meters fair
area, 66 thousand sq meters indoor and 20
thousand sq meters outdoor, winning the
biggest fair center title of Anatolia Konya
Agriculture Fair held at International Fair
Center of Konya Chamber of Trade hosted
203,121 visitors.
In 2015, we target the number of 400 thou-
sand visitors at Agriculture Fair. With this figure
one of three biggest specialized fairs would
be held in Konya. So we will have taken
the biggest step in line with the objective of
“2023: Konya Fair Organization Center”.
How spreading of industry from Istanbul to
Anatolia is a compulsory, spreading of fair
organization to Anatolia is also a compul-
sory in 2023. Istanbul today is a city majority
of the fair organizations are held and also
owning biggest fair areas. But Konya’s
experience in fair organization issue and
development are increasing with every
passing day.
In May 2014, with the new fair area with
86 thousand sq meters entered into force,
Konya is almost a candidate city for being
the fair center in the upcoming years. After
the fair areas in Istanbul, Konya has become
the second city possessing the biggest fair
area in Turkey. Istanbul with its population
and cosmopolitan structure has become a
city of which costs continuously rise. For this
reason, fair organization firms have scrutini-
zed the cities in Anatolia. Konya began to
advance on the way to be an attraction
center in fair organizations with its geopoliti-
cal position, developed industry and trade
structure, geographic conditions, easiness
for transport and low cost. On an area of
5 sq kilometers of the fair center has bus
terminal, airport. Locating at the intersection
of the provinces of Ankara, Adana, Aksaray
surrounding highways our center has the
biggest logistic of Turkey. On the other side,
this region will be foremost trade center of
the world with Organized Industrial Zone
and Logistic Center. With these feature,
saying Konya will be fair organization center
in 2023 is not a dream. As for our current
works at least 6 fairs to be held including full
of six halls. We will also make machinery,
construction, food, cast and seed-animal
husbandry fairs to add into the brand fairs
as Agriculture Fair. As of 2017, we will reach
2 million visitor objectives with more four fairs
including full of four halls. After achieving
these goals, we will start to enlarge from 6 to
12 halls. With this project our fair center will
reach a total of 212 thousand sq meters, 132
thousand sq meters indoors, 80 thousand sq
meters outdoor and 19 thousand sq meters
touring area to be the biggest fair area of
Turkey. A fair center with this feature will be
Turkey’s fair organization center in 2023.