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Tell us a bit about your background personally—where did you grow
up, how did you get to where you are now?
I was born in a village near Van, a city on the eastern part of Turkey
with severe winter conditions. My father ran a drygoods store in town, so
I got used to working and helping him there during the summer holidays
and that was where I gained my first experiences in trade. However, my
serious business activities started when I moved to Antalya to study at
the high school, where I simultaneously started working as a salesper-
son at the carpet store. This meant I became acquainted with the busi-
ness world of grown-ups in my early years and I started my first business
when I was 18, selling carpets to tourists visiting Antalya.
I attended undergraduate programs in Munich, Germany, where I
started to study Economics and German Literature. It was the same year
when I co-established a real estate agency in Munich and began trading
real estate properties one year after.
As a real entrepreneur, I founded four different companies in textile
and tourism sectors between 1994 and 1998. In 1998 I established my
first company in the hospitality business.
I founded Lydion in 1999, a manufacturer and supplier of various
gold products and jewels and an importer of world famous brand
Heroes of Hospitality
Fettah Tamince, Chairman of Rixos Hotel Group,
holds forth on his expanding empire of luxury properties
watches. I established Sembol Construction in 2000 and started to build
hotels, shopping malls, sport complexes and other important projects of
higher size, value and reputation, such as the Palace of Peace in As-
tana, Kazakhstan.
In the same year as Sembol was founded, I also opened the first
member of Rixos Hotels chain in Antalya. Today my activities and in-
vestments extend to a wide range of industries including tourism, hotel
management and investment, construction and real estate development.
With an astute look into the fast growing establishing countries, I di-
rected my business activities within Eastern Europe and the Middle East
specifically in Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Dubai and more.
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