Generally, travelling might be tense. However the good factor is that, at Istanbul Airport, remedy canines at the moment are able to lend a serving to paw to consolation tense travellers.
Reuters reviews that the airport has been doing this program for the previous month to assist calm the nerves of passengers passing by the terminals.
5 pooches are tasked to roam across the airport to seek for burdened passengers who want to settle down earlier than they board their flights.
And it’s fairly straightforward to identify the remedy canines — they put on a blue vest/shirt with the phrases “Pet Me” written on it.
Unsurprisingly, this system has acquired optimistic suggestions from passengers. And following this, Abdulkadir Demirtas, a buyer expertise supervisor, tells Reuters that Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA) is planning to broaden the mission.
By increasing the mission, the airport operator will elevate the variety of remedy canines offering consolation to passengers from 5 to 10.
Demirtas stated, “Our precedence is to supply a stress-free and gratifying airport expertise to all passengers.”
“Travelling might be tense … In accordance with analysis, interplay between animals and people reduces stress ranges and anxiousness,” he added.
Murat Cengiz Koca, a canine behavioral skilled and coach who accompanies the canines across the airport, reveals that the canines have been educated to not react to sounds or folks.
He stated, “The canines we now have chosen right here have gone by a year-long course of and coaching. They’re right here immediately as a result of they’ve been profitable.”
A traveller, named Anastasia Podmazova, praised this system whereas kneeling to pet one of many remedy canines, Kuki, saying, “It relaxes me. I like animals. It is vitally good.”
