Typically, travelling will be irritating. However the good factor is that, at Istanbul Airport, remedy canine are actually able to lend a serving to paw to consolation tense travellers.
Reuters stories that the airport has been doing this program for the previous month to assist calm the nerves of passengers passing by means of the terminals.
5 pooches are tasked to roam across the airport to seek for harassed passengers who need to relax earlier than they board their flights.
And it’s fairly straightforward to identify the remedy canine — they put on a blue vest/shirt with the phrases “Pet Me” written on it.
Unsurprisingly, this system has acquired constructive suggestions from passengers. And following this, Abdulkadir Demirtas, a buyer expertise supervisor, tells Reuters that Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA) is planning to broaden the challenge.
By increasing the challenge, the airport operator will increase the variety of remedy canine offering consolation to passengers from 5 to 10.
Demirtas mentioned, “Our precedence is to offer a stress-free and pleasurable airport expertise to all passengers.”
“Travelling will be irritating … In keeping with analysis, interplay between animals and people reduces stress ranges and nervousness,” he added.
Murat Cengiz Koca, a canine behavioral skilled and coach who accompanies the canines across the airport, reveals that the canine had been educated to not react to sounds or folks.
He mentioned, “The canine now we have chosen right here have gone by means of 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 canine, Kuki, saying, “It relaxes me. I like animals. It is extremely good.”
