“Tourists with modest means will have to rest in tents,” – so intimidated domestic tourists, owners of Turkish hotels, protesting against rising electricity prices.
“We had to increase costs by at least 40-50% after the increase in electricity prices. As a result, hotel operators who fill hotels with early bookings do not know how to cover the cost of everything necessary for the life of the hotel – from food to energy. At the same time we can not turn off the lights, even if the hotel stops 2 people. Price increases will definitely happen. In this case, it turns out that middle-class citizens can only rest in tents, “said one of the protesters, the president of the Association of Small Hoteliers Ertan Ustaoglu.
“There has never been a time when I was so reluctant to do my job. We keep our hotels open during the winter months so as not to harm our staff, but now many will have to close them in the winter. This will lead to a further increase in unemployment in the winter months, “added Mehmet Dagoglu, a board member of the Bodrum Hotel and Investor Association (BODER).
Read more about the hopeless situation in Turkish hotels in the financial crisis, and what it may threaten Ukrainian tourists – read in the article “Cheap holidays in Turkey is coming to an end: hotels have named the reason.”
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