SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY

As a company that is aware of its responsibilities towards its country and society as well as its customers; we contribute to many projects in different fields such as education, culture, archeology and arts. We aim to produce innovative solutions with the awareness of being a “Sustainable Socially Responsible Institution”.

Articles of our Chairman of the Board A. Refik Kutluer published in Ancient Origins, the important journal of the archeology world, attract great attention worldwide. Firstly; An article on "Göbeklitepe", which brings a different perspective and underlines important issues, has been published. The most recently published, Tarsus and St. Paul's article on the lost bible was read by 9,000 people during the week it was published and managed to rank among the top 10 most read articles.

Articles of our Chairman of the Board A. Refik Kutluer published in Ancient Origins, the important journal of the archeology world, attract great attention worldwide. Firstly; An article on "Göbeklitepe", which brings a different perspective and underlines important issues, has been published. The most recently published, Tarsus and St. Paul's article on the lost bible was read by 9,000 people during the week it was published and managed to rank among the top 10 most read articles.

Refik Kutluer, who is Turkey's first "CTC" (Certified Travel Counselor) and CTIE (Certified Travel Industry Executive) (Travel Institute, University of Massachusetts, USA) tourism manager, continues his work regarding the training of tourism sector employees.

The "12th Nature and Folk Sports (IVV) Olympiad" held in Antalya in 2011 was organized by Alabanda Events.

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The first International meeting on Science and Ethics was organized in London and continued in Istanbul and Berlin together with Prof. Robert EDWARDS, who is the pioneer of first tube baby. The scientific committee of this important meeting consisted of Prof.Edwards, Edgar Dahl and Refik Kutluer. The echoes of this series of meetings that has started in Royal society, London still continue.

Christians who visit the Virgin Mary Church in Ephesus become “HACI” (Pilgrims) with the certificate prepared and put into practice by Alabanda Tourism.

A.Refik Kutluer is the Trustee and former Board Member of the International Mevlana Foundation. Events where Mevlana Rumi’s first 18 couplets of his Mesnevi were read by his 12 Generation grandchild Esin Çelebi (Turkish), Afghanistan Ambassador (Persian) and A. Refik Kutluer (English) and Şefika Kutluer performed the flute concerto dedicated to Mevlana were realized in Konya, Ankara and Istanbul.

Cappadocia, a natural wonder site decorated by the wind, was voted to be among the "New 7 Natural Wonders of the World" in 2009, and as a result of a campaign initiated and led by Refik Kutluer. It passed the first qualifying rounds and advanced to the final.

The famous “ALABANDA OPERET” by Ekrem and Cemal Reşit Rey was staged again 50 years later under the sponsorship of Alabanda Tourism.

Refik Kutluer produced the "First Mask", the molds of which were specially made in Italy, in 1981 to be a solution to Ankara's air pollution! "REF CLEAN AIR MASK"

Alabanda Tourism, which supports the protection of our cultural assets, has been making significant contributions to the archaeological excavations of the ancient city of Alabanda, which is an important Carian city in Aydın Çine.