In Turkey, a movement is gaining momentum to abolish the all-inclusive system in hotels.
Moreover, some entrepreneurs used to talk about this among themselves, who are extremely dissatisfied with the fact that the expenses of foreign tourists outside the hotels where this system operates have fallen almost to a minimum. Now this is already spoken out openly and with calls to the government to ban “all inclusive” as soon as possible.
So recently, Bendevi Palandeken (President of TESK – Traders and Artisans Conference of Turkey) gave an extensive interview, in which, among other things, he paid attention to this problem. In particular, he noted that before the introduction of the “all inclusive” system, foreign tourists spent an average of about $ 900 outside of hotels (purchasing food, water, souvenirs, excursions, public transport tickets, etc.). Now they mostly sit in hotels where they have “all inclusive”—their spending outside of hotels has dropped to an average of $ 2 per tourist.
Completely abolishing the all-inclusive system would bring the country significantly more foreign exchange earnings, even if the total number of tourists decreases slightly, Palandecken said. Moreover, this profit will be evenly distributed among different business areas (gastronomy, transport infrastructure, artisans, etc.), and will not end up in the hands of the owners of large hotel chains.