benefits from twin towns

[shirleyanntr]

i often wonder about twin towns..what do they do,is there much that goes on between them...is it just a gimmick
Alanya is twinned with quite a few european and asian towns..and i was curious to see if other places in Turkey were the same...and guess what..i didnt find one British place that has twinned with a Turkish town.

Here are Alanya's sister cities
Fushun, China
Gladbeck, Germany
Keszthely, Hungary
Nea Ionia, Greece
Schwechat, Austria
Talsi, Latvia
Trakai, Lithuania
Wodzisław Śląski, Poland