Bulut Bağcı is a foresighted, success-oriented businessman. As an entrepreneur, he is talented to see the shortcomings in industries and fills the gaps with successful strategies. He graduated from Tourism Administration department with an honors degree at one of the most prestigious universities of Turkey, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul in 2009. He also had a short-term education at Harvard Business School. For being an experienced Tourism administrator at his young age, he saw the absence of an international tourism conference that industry leaders gather together to discuss the future of the tourism industry. Accordingly, he started the World Tourism Forum Institute as the founder and president of the institution in 2010.
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