Issue: 127
Antalya Smart City Project, which is carried out by the collaboration of Turk Telekom, Directcomm Marketing Group and Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, aims to provide new business opportunities to individuals and making their everyday life easier.
Marcos Athias Neto, the Director of UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development, gave the award to the winner team and emphasized investments in sustainable smart cities as an important step towards development.
President of Türkiye Halkla İlişkiler Derneği (Turkey Public Relations Association) Gonca Karakaş stated that as an association they work to lead the changes in the world of communications, and sustainable development is now placed at the center of these changes.
This year; The Golden Compass Public Relations award ceremony was organized by TÜHİD and held for the 15th time in Istanbul on May 30, 2016.
Competition - which assesses public relations work in the sector - aims to support service quality as well as the professional development of public relations area.
Kuyucak Village in Isparta provides 93% of Turkey’s lavender production. Lavender Scented Village Project, supported within the scope of Future is in Tourism, which is implemented in partnership with Ministry of Culture and Tourism, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Anadolu Efes, aims to develop the rural tourism in the region and ensure income generation for local people. Lavender Scented Village Project is being carried out by Keçiborlu Mutual Aid and Supporting Society, Keciborlu District Governorship and Neighborhood Unit of Kuyucak Village.
Within the scope of project, to create a model for Kuyucak Village a study visit was organised to France-Provence region, which is well-known with its lavenders and good rural tourism practices. District Governor of Keçiborlu Osman Dölek, Isparta Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Şükrü Başdeğirmen, Project coordinators Ali Sağdaş and Gürkan Cunda, and Kuyucak Village lavender producers Huriye Tezcan, Melis Gülşah, and Meral Çetin joined the visit. On the first day of the visit, lavender production and trade in the region was discussed with Marseille Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Also, a factory of world famous French cosmetic brand, in which lavender and 300 different kind of plant are processed, was visited. Participants were informed about how the products are opened to market, and from which manufacturing processes those products pass. It was an exciting experience for lavender producers of Kuyucak Village to observe each stage of manufacturing.
In addition, participants discussed the lavender production, harvesting and product development, with a manufacturer located in Avignon. There have been suggestions about the importance of sharing the tasks, variety of souvenirs, and determination of lavender route, for the lavender manufacturers of Kuyucak Village. French lavender producer highlighted the importance of remaining local, and emphasizing the significance of making local delicacies and locally produced souvenirs an element of tourism.
Lavender producers of Kuyucak Village, who returned from the study visit with new experiences and ideas, expect to welcome guests in July.
Works are accelerated within the scope of “Support to Development of a Policy Framework for Total Factor Productivity in Turkey” project which aims to improve the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) to growth.
Until today series of meetings were organized for public and private sector for the identification of the value chains and the decisive total factor productivity factors. Moreover, the design of the field work as stated at the Inception Period was also completed.
The field work started in 9th May and until now, 42 companies were visited and face to face meetings were held.
Field work will be implemented in 3 steps: as a first step the dominant firms setting the game at the value chains will be visited, as a second step the 300 companies active in the chain of the mentioned dominant actors and a 100 operating in the same sector chosen randomly, will be taken into account. Afterwards, the survey work with 500 companies will be completed. As a last step, survey will be conducted with 1,500 companies which have a supplier relationship with the first 100 and second 300 and 1,000 companies will be chosen randomly in order to assess their situation.
Total Factor Productivity Project is a technical assistance project financed by EU and implemented by UNDP in cooperation with Ministry of Development. The project aims to identify the factors that hinder the capacity increase in Increase of Total Factor Productivity in Turkey and develop a macro-level public policy framework that would boost total factor productivity in a way it will be developed and operationalized.
A series of the meetings were organized in 5 pilot sites of project on “Integrated Approach to Management of Forests in Turkey, with Demonstration in High Conservation Value Forests in the Mediterranean Region” with the participation of the personnel from Forest District Directorates, representatives from municipality, head of villages (muhtar), representatives from NGOs, army, police department and cooperatives.
The aim of the meetings were to evaluate the draft fire management plans developed for 5 pilot Forest District Directorates in Andırın, Pos, Gülnar, Gazipaşa and Köyceğiz.
After a brief introduction of the draft fire management plans, a group discussion was organized in each of the meeting organized in 5 pilot sites. Participants were encouraged to express their feelings about the plans and asked if they had any suggestions to improve the plans. The final versions of the fire management plans will be prepared based on the ideas and suggestions received during the meetings soon.
Under the title 'Advancing the Measurement of Sustainable Tourism Development', UNWTO Member States, NGOs, academic institutions and other public and private sector entities discussed approaches to effectively measure, monitor and assess tourism performance and impacts at destination level. This consultative process takes place at a time in which the international tourism community embraces the Sustainable Development Goals.
UNWTO welcomed more than 70 experts from 21 countries at its Headquarters in Madrid, to discuss and share experiences related to the measurement and monitoring of the impact that tourism has on destinations. Also Turkey participated to this meeting within the context of Capacity Development for Sustainable Community Based Tourism Project implemented by Ministry of Tourism and Agriculture in cooperation with UNDP.
Special focus was put on the relevance and the opportunities available from non-traditional data sources, including social media analysis, geospatial data mapping, big and live data collection and usage, as well as the analysis of credit card spending patterns and the flow of visitors based on mobile device information.
This consultation takes place in the context of recent achievements that underline and strengthen the role and responsibilities of sustainable tourism as a positive instrument for development such as the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals as well as the upcoming International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017.
UNWTO has been promoting the use of sustainable tourism indicators for measurement since the early 1990s as essential instruments for effective tourism policy planning and management at destinations. In this framework, the UNWTO Network of Observatories (INSTO) was created in 2004. The Network encompasses destinations around the world committed to regular monitoring of tourism in order to better understand destination-wide resource use and foster the responsible management of tourism.
The objective of the workshop was to identify the features and contents of the decision support systems which would be prepared under the cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Forest and Water Affairs of Turkey (General Directorate of Forestry-GDF) and Yale University of USA and to assess the collaboration and integration issues of MRV system (Gold Standard) towards decision support systems.
Participants of the workshop were the representatives of the related Departments from the GDF, project consultants from universities, Yale University, Gold Standard and UNDP.
At the end of the workshop, it was agreed that Yale University and Gold Standard experts will work closely on the preparation of a road map of setting up a best appropriate Decision Support System and MRV system for GDF of Turkey in the lights of the negotiations with the related departments of GDF during the workshop.
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