Turkey's tourism professionals hopeful for domestic tourism boom
Published 07 Jun,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - With restrictions on travel to Turkey by Russia, United Kingdom and EU member states, the Turkish tourism industry is facing a heavy setback, but Turkish tourism professionals are hopeful to entertain domestic tourists this summer, expecting a record-breaking boom in the domestic market sales.
Mete Vardar, the CEO of Jolly Tourism, said he believes that the highest domestic market sales figure over the last 50 years in the tourism sector would be achieved if the normalization process continues as expected and if the number of vaccinations increases.
“It turned out that a nice holiday is just as important as vaccination is during this period. People are bored in their homes. We think that people will need more vacations this year,” Vardar said during a press meeting in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, adding that data also confirm these expectations.
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