In the summer season of 2022 burning tours to Turkey can not be expected – such a warning was issued by experts in the tourism market. Moreover, prices for the high sales season – that is, by the beginning of April – will increase significantly, up to 50%. So far, due to early booking and other promotions, the increase is kept within 10-15%. But by April, tourists have the opportunity to buy tours cheaper – say experts in the tourism market.
In general, the share of Turkey in the total volume of booked tours for the summer from tour operators is equal to or more than 70%. At the same time, the increase is significant – some tour operators say growth of 100% compared to last year, and in general – believe that Turkey will at least approach pre-pandemic volumes, and probably – and surpass them. For example, according to the TEZ Tour, the number of tourists who have already booked a holiday in Turkey from early booking has increased almost 10 times compared to the winter of 2020/21.
At the same time, experts noted that the rise in prices already exists, but so far it is not so significant. Prices of Turkish hotels in the currency of this early booking campaign increased, in fact, within the limits of Ukrainian inflation – 10-15%. At the same time hotels offer early booking discounts – often 30-40%, and in the case of individual hotels – and 60%.
However, it will be recalled that in Turkey itself, hoteliers, “pressed” by the financial crisis and rising electricity prices, have already said that tourists are too expensive for Turkey – this opinion was voiced, for example, the head of the Antalya Commodity Exchange Ali Chandir. According to him, selling the tour for $ 600 to a tourist who spends tons of water and leaves tons of waste is too cheap to sell “Turkish valuables”. “When we say, ‘We are selling our country’s values cheaply,’ our tourist friends are angry with us, but it is true,” he told the Antalya Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ANSİAD). According to him, tourism is a “cheap export of our national values”, which became one of the reasons for the “reduction of the foreign exchange base”. “The situation when a tourist who comes for $ 600 consumes 1 ton of water a day and leaves at least 25-30 kilograms of waste is abnormal. The cost of such a holiday should not be $ 600, “said the Turkish expert. Read the details at the link.
Tour operators, most closely associated with Turkey, also warn tourists. “After the end of the early booking campaign (prices for accommodation in hotels in Turkey may increase by an average of 25-40%,” – said in Pegas Touristik. At the same time, good hotels are rising even more – so that moved to Turkey “European” tour operator) PAC Group, speaking about the segment of expensive hotels 5 *, believes that without discounts on early booking promotions, prices for summer Turkey will be higher by about 50% and no “burning” in the Turkish direction in May-June can not be expected, market players say. , because other markets will return to the country en masse – among them the Germans and the British, who are already actively booking the summer.
As for the details of the prices, the minimum prices for full tour packages to Turkey with a departure in early June (June 1-5) for 10 nights in a 3 * hotel start from 22 thousand hryvnia; in the “five” can now fly for 32 thousand hryvnia for a ten-day tour for the family – two adults plus a child. “Accommodation in popular 5 * hotels in Turkey in June may cost 1.5-2 and 3 times higher than the minimum prices for” fives “, in deluxe hotels – and more, depending on the room category”, – experts add.
Note that the February collapse in prices is recorded in other areas – for example, now experts say very low prices in Egypt. However, all special offers of hotels also apply to February-March, from April hotels will become more expensive.
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Interestingly, now cheap Turkey has helped its main Russian competitor – that is. domestic resorts, keep your tourist flow. The resumption of foreign tourist traffic in the summer season of 2022 will provide domestic tourists with a great service – hotels in Russian resorts, most likely, will not raise prices. Most likely, hotel prices will increase by 10% – this is only within inflation.
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