Remedy canine have been providing consolation to careworn passengers at Istanbul Airport in Turkey for the previous month. These animals present passengers with a chance to scale back their nervousness earlier than boarding their flights.
“Our precedence is offering a stress-free and gratifying airport expertise to all passengers. Touring will be nerve-racking. For that reason, we authorised this (remedy canine) undertaking,” Abdulkadir Demirtas, a buyer expertise supervisor with Istanbul Airport operator IGA, mentioned.
Passengers can work together with 5 remedy canine as they roam the airport alongside their trainers.
“In keeping with analysis, interplay between animals and people reduces stress ranges and nervousness. So, we authorised this undertaking,” Demirtas mentioned.
Demirtas defined that the airport operators have been engaged on the remedy canine undertaking for six months and hope to boost the variety of canine to 10.
“The canine must get alongside effectively with folks. She or he must be calm, not be hyperactive and desires to stay unreactive to all sounds,” Murat Cengiz Koca, a canine behavioral skilled who helped prepare the canine, mentioned.
“The canine we’ve chosen right here have gone by means of a year-long course of and coaching. They’re right here as we speak as a result of they’ve been profitable,” he added.
Anastasia Podmazova, a passenger, praised the initiative, noting the comforting presence of the canine on the airport. “It’s stress-free for me. I really like animals. It’s excellent,” she mentioned as she kneeled to pet remedy canine Kuki.
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