The death knell for Turkey’s tourism industry has been sounding repeatedly of late – with the country the victim of five terror attacks since the start of the year – but a failed coup at the weekend is likely to add the final damaging dimension to the country’s instability.


President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently exacting revenge on those responsible for the weekend’s failed uprising, with more than 6,000 people arrested in a crackdown. World leaders are urging him to not to restrict basic democratic rights, while the Foreign Office,http://www.frbiz.com/products/j-37177487/ipad_cover_cgi_005.htmlcheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg,jordans for cheap, though not advising against travel to Turkey, warns that atmosphere is “potentially volatile”.


The country has already seen visitor numbers tumble in recent months – including a 34.7 per cent fall in May,cheap authentic jordans,jordans for cheap, the largest decrease in 22 years – and the latest disruption is likely to be irreparably harmful to an already fragile tourism industry. At the end of May, Turkey was reporting its year-to-date arrivals were down 9.9 per cent.

Tourist arrivals in Turkey


Source: Minister of Culture and Tourism


“Right now, Turkey’s tourism chapter is ending,Kicksokok.com,” says Zekiye Yucel, a Turk and managing director of tour operator The Discovery Collection, which is selling fewer and fewer holidays to the country. “What’s going to happen over the next six months, we’re not sure, but I would not feel comfortable sending people on holiday in the next few months.”


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“We have seen some pretty ugly scenes since the attempted coup and that has created a lot of anger in the country. This is more damaging for tourism than the terror attacks,http://users.atw.hu/jhc-clan/index.php?site=forum_topic&topic=18433cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg,cheap jordan shoes.”







Yucel says that visitor confidence had been growing in Turkey, popular among Britons, both for the city destinations of Istanbul and Ankara and its beach resorts along the Aegean and south coast, but that last month’s bombing of Istanbul’s Ataturk airport shook that.


“The country was going steady and was quite a good option for the late booking market. People started asking about the deals on offer, and there’s a lot of capacity there,” she said. “But the last bombing was the final straw.”


Holiday bookings to the country were already down some 50 per cent, while big-hitters such as Neilson, Mark Warner Thomas Cook had all been forced to shut resorts or reduce capacity. Anatolian Sky, a Turkey specialist operator, folded days after the Istanbul airport bombings, its managing director Akin Koc citing political instability and terror attacks.


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He said: “We have been under pressure since the regional political problems started in the past few years and intensified last year and this year. Turkey has been under attack by regional terrorism and by global powers. Every new attack has had a devastating effect on the company.”


The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) last year released a study that said the tourism industries of countries or cities affected by a terror attack can repair themselves and rebuild in 13 months, on average. Today, David Scowsill, the WTTC president, listed the issues the country must overcome if it is begin to attract visitors again.


“Not only has the country faced terrorist attacks, it is challenged by the Syrian war on its border, the migration crisis and the aftermath of a political dispute with Russia,” he said. “The recent coup may further impact the country’s travel and tourism sector, as travellers will need to be confident of political stability before they return in large numbers.”





The Foreign Office advice for travel to Turkey currently remains unchanged; only regions to the south-east, near the border with Syria and Iraq, are out of bounds. But it does urge all visitors to follow the instructions of the authorities, and those in Istanbul or Ankara to remain vigilant and avoid public spaces.


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It seems unlikely it will change its advice to warn against travel to the country, which would be another hammer blow to a tourism industry that contributes to just over 10 per cent of Turkey's GDP, but even without such cautions, visitor numbers look set to stagnate for the forseeable future.



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