Officials from ATU Duty Free, established in 2000 as a joint venture between TAV Havalimanları Holding, Unifree Duty Free A.Ş., and Gebr, visited the Alanya Tourist Operators Association (ALTİD). ATU Gazipaşa Airport Administrative Affairs Manager Barış Komsuoğlu, Operations Manager Berk Sancar, and Seher Abay exchanged ideas with ALTİD President Burhan Sili regarding the more effective promotion and development of Gazipaşa Airport, as well as potential joint activities. Stating that ATU Duty Free has been filling a significant gap at Gazipaşa Airport since March 2013, Sili said, “Inter-institutional relations and airport promotion efforts are accelerating the development process of Gazipaşa Airport. We forecast that Gazipaşa Airport, which reached 360 thousand passengers in 2013, will exceed 500 thousand passengers in 2014. This activity leads to major investments both inside and outside the airport. The regional economy is growing in parallel with the airport's volume. Every plane landing at Gazipaşa Airport heralds a new investment.”
ABOUT ATU DUTY FREE
ATU is the sole duty-free operator at Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, and Gazipasa airports in Türkiye. It operates at Tbilisi and Batumi airports in Georgia, Enfidha-Hammamet Airport in Tunisia, Skopje and Ohrid airports in Macedonia, and Riga Airport in Latvia. Having received the “Protection of Employee Rights” award from the Social Security Institution (SGK) in 2012, the company is one of the 15 largest airport retailers worldwide. With 15,442 square meters of tax-free and duty-free sales area, the company serves with 63 stores across five countries. With approximately 1,700 employees, ATU provides uninterrupted service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to 38.2 million traveling customers per year.
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