{"id":141263,"date":"2018-04-30T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/tourism-and-environment-minister-ataoglu-trnc-an-attractive-destination-for-both-tourism-and-investment\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:45:49","slug":"tourism-and-environment-minister-ataoglu-trnc-an-attractive-destination-for-both-tourism-and-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/tourism-and-environment-minister-ataoglu-trnc-an-attractive-destination-for-both-tourism-and-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism and Environment Minister Atao\u011flu: \u201cTRNC an attractive destination for both tourism and investment\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 12th Real Estate Fair and the Arabic-Turkish Summit is being held in \u0130stanbul, with 19 firms from the TRNC in attendance, as well as Tourism and Environment Minister Fikri Atao\u011flu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNorth Cyprus Day\u201d was organized as part of the fair, during which Atao\u011flu gave a speech on investment incentives in the TRNC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that more than one million tourists visit the TRNC every year, Atao\u011flu hailed the TRNC as a tourism island, with its historical richness and Mediterranean climate. Tourists can enjoy long summers with 10 months of sunny weather, and days at beaches and beside the sea for eight months of the year. Atao\u011flu added that the climate during four seasons of the year is perfect for sports and tourism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister Atao\u011flu also highlighted \u201cincentive certificates\u201d, which are given to those who want to invest in the TRNC, regardless of whether they are native or foreign investors. Stating that customs and fund discounts are applied to imported products within the scope of the incentive certificate, Atao\u011flu said that VAT is not applied to imported or local machinery and equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his speech, Atao\u011flu emphasized that investment costs in the TRNC are more reasonable than South Cyprus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th Real Estate Fair and the Arabic-Turkish Summit is being held in \u0130stanbul, with 19<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}