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74<br />
hotel restaurant<br />
& hi-tech<br />
brand interview<br />
Esjim boosts its efficiency in the Mediterranean region!<br />
“We concentrated mostly on the Mediterranean region in terms of tourist enterprises<br />
in <strong>2017</strong>. In the direction of developing and increasing demand, we enhanced our<br />
Mediterranean Regional Directorate in <strong>2017</strong>. It is inevitable for sport to take part in the<br />
rapidly expanding tourism sector.”<br />
Focusing on Mediterranean Region<br />
for its tourist business in <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
Esjim continues to support<br />
the tourism sector with its range<br />
of products and services to meet<br />
developing and increasing demands.<br />
Declaring that they expand their target<br />
markets, especially the Middle East<br />
and neighboring countries as of<br />
this year, Esjim General Manager<br />
Suleyman Unal informed us about their<br />
tourism activities and goals.<br />
Starting from the foundation<br />
of Esjim, could you briefly<br />
introduce your company?<br />
Starting its journey in sports sector in<br />
the field of professional sports centers in<br />
1990, Esjim carried its experience on<br />
sports centers and customer services<br />
to the area of isotonic sports machines.<br />
Created by devoted and professional<br />
athletes; Esjim develops its products<br />
for individuals and aims to provide ways<br />
customers to benefit most effectively.<br />
The company will continue its steady rise<br />
in settlement and sports equipment and<br />
always stay one-step ahead in the sports<br />
industry.<br />
By referring to<br />
the distribution activities of<br />
your company, could you<br />
inform us about the criteria of<br />
your agreement? How do you<br />
benefit from market power,<br />
target market, design of<br />
perceptions, technology and R<br />
& D activities of the brand you<br />
are in cooperation with?<br />
Esjim aims to provide one, which is<br />
the best and newest to the end user<br />
through a strong distribution agreement.<br />
Our criteria in this direction are<br />
qualification, product quality, service,<br />
support, versatility, market availability,<br />
durability and sustainability. Therefore, in<br />
our country, we are the representative<br />
of proven and world-famous brands<br />
such as Starline, Impulse Fitness,<br />
Intenza Fitness, Sole Fitness, Ultrasun<br />
Solarium and Trec Nutrition. All the<br />
brands we are in cooperation with are<br />
the leading brands in the field. We offer<br />
sport and products for all age with their<br />
versatile and user-friendly side. Esjim<br />
developed its products as a result of<br />
R&D activities on sports development,<br />
its impacts on individuals and the ways<br />
customers can benefit most effectively.<br />
Style, durability and functionality<br />
of the products are presented to the<br />
user in our range.<br />
How was <strong>2017</strong><br />
for your company? In which<br />
regions you are most focused<br />
for hotels and tourist businesses<br />
in Turkey? Where are your<br />
target markets to export?<br />
We focused on the Mediterranean region<br />
most for tourist business in <strong>2017</strong>. In the<br />
direction of developing and increasing<br />
demands, we put our Mediterranean<br />
Regional Directorate into operation in<br />
<strong>2017</strong>. It is inevitable for sport to take<br />
part in the rapidly expanding tourism<br />
sector. As Esjim, we expand our target<br />
markets, especially the Middle East and<br />
neighboring countries as of this year.<br />
What are the latest trends of<br />
fitness-gym industry in<br />
the hotels and tourist business<br />
in the and last 15 years? Do<br />
you make an assessment? How<br />
do you overview the sector in<br />
general?<br />
The fitness industry is now a need for<br />
people in their vacation plan. Especially<br />
for a healthy life, sport become a<br />
lifestyle for people who want to get rid<br />
of fatigue. This phenomenon makes<br />
it difficult for the independent<br />
development of tourist business in<br />
the fitness industry. In general, as the<br />
awareness of sports increases, the<br />
number of conscious athletes in the<br />
facilities also increases. As a natural<br />
consequence, the facilities have begun to<br />
make the sports fields they have in them<br />
versatile. Now it is started to establish<br />
facilities within the sector that you can<br />
reach all sports branches.<br />
“Esjim aims to provide<br />
one which is the best<br />
and newest to the end<br />
user through a strong<br />
distribution agreement.<br />
Our criteria in this<br />
direction are qualification,<br />
product quality, service,<br />
support, versatility, market<br />
availability, durability and<br />
sustainability.”