Posted on 02/02/2016 2:28:48 PM PST by Trumpinator
Putin's revenge: Turkish tourist industry collapsing
More than 1,300 hotels along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts are up for sale as Russian sanctions bite.
A total of 1,318 Turkish hotels along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts have been put up for sale, due to Russian sanctions on Turkey and security concerns, reported Turkish and Russian media Tuesday.
Today's Zaman said that 410 hotels are listed for sale at the Mediterranean resort area of Anatalya, at a total sale price of TL 30 billion (about $10 billion). The remaining 908 hotels are on sale at the provinces of Muğla, İzmir, Aydın, Balıkesir, Çanakkale and Denizli, at a total of TL 8.8 billion (about $3 billion).
According to Denizli Colossae Thermal Chairman, Abdurrahman Karamanlıoğlu, some resort town hotels were brought near bankruptcy after Russia imposed sanctions against Turkey, following the downing of a Russian warplane near Turkey's border last November.
Russia advised its citizens to cancel their visits to Turkey and reintroduced a visa regime for tourism between the two countries. Travel agencies in Russia also stopped selling tour packages to Turkey, following the Kremlin's request.
“We talk the realities but officials put a brave face on the issue. We have been heavily affected from the jet crisis. Especially the hotels in Antalya; being closed for the last four months, most of those are on the verge of bankruptcy,†Today's Zaman quoted Karamanlıoğlu as saying.
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Another tourist-dependent muslim country collapsing ...
If you let your country’s economy become dependent on Russian tourists, you deserve what you get.
I don’t know why anyone would want to visit that craphole anyway. Dangerous muzzie area.
I don’t know why, but liberals have to talk up any Muslim country. It’s the Rick Steves Kumbaya cultural enhancement syndrome. I just had a very liberal friend visit there, and he made it sound great. Loved it a lot more than Greece, which I suppose isn’t saying that much.
Cruise ships are apparently starting to alter itineraries to avoid Turkey.
I heard of a friend on an American Cruise line (Oceania), whose cruise for this April was just changed in the last few weeks, to drop Turkish port calls.
No Christian without a death wish should consider a vacation in Turkey.
Maybe Russia will stop exporting its women to Turkey as well.
18,000 Russian women married to Turkish men living in Antalya
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/91215/
And that’s 2012 and just that one area,
Yeah, Vlad; got some real revenge!
Up to 300,000 such couples.
I took it when I lived in Ankara. It cost us almost nothing and was worth it.
Turkey is the kind of place in a travel sweepstakes where first prize is a trip there for one week and second prize is a trip there for two weeks.
What do they need Russians for. Are there not 1.6 billion moslems eager to support their brethren?
"For a nation of pigs, it sures is funny you don't eat'em!"
Like India. Come on, the place stinks, ok, they poop in the rivers. Why would anybody want to go there?
I’ll only go, when I can go to Constantinople.
I've actually been to Turkey 3 times. Each time a disappointment. Bad food. Unfriendly locals. A bit dodgy and seedy.
Istanbul is interesting to see... once. Nothing to return to.
Food is bad.
Service is bad.
Increasingly Islamicized.
Traveling between Istanbul and Ankara looks like Iraq - nobody on the streets, ladies wearing black abbayas and no visible signs of life except 5 times daily screaming from Mosques and minarets.
Skip Turkey.
2 years Izmir assigned NATO LANDSOUTHEAST.
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