The maximum occupancy of Antalya hotels, caused by the long weekend of local tourists, will not last long. Foreign tourists, primarily from Ukraine and Russia, are needed to constantly load the market, and the situation with them is more than difficult, which corrects the previously optimistic assessment of the season in a pessimistic direction. Such forecasts were presented by Turkish hoteliers, evaluating the results of the long weekend in honor of Kurban Bayram.
According to them, during the nine days of the holiday, many local tourists flocked to the resort provinces of Antalya and Mugla. Hotel occupancy reached 100%. Many cities on the coast, where the population does not exceed a thousand people, on the days of the holiday loaded from 10 to 30 thousand people.
But this is short-lived, experts add. The average length of stay of local tourists is 4 days, while that of foreign tourists is at least 8. “The domestic market filled the gap between the Ukrainian and Russian markets, albeit for a short time. Average occupancy was 90%, but overnight stays are short. The average overnight stay in the domestic market is 4 days, and in the Ukrainian and Russian markets – 8 days”, experts from the Turkish hotel business assessed.
At the same time, according to them, hotels and resorts operating on the European market generally do not have any particular problems. But at least until June, the situation at the “Russian” resorts, such as Kemer, Alania, etc., was quite difficult. The hotels there opened late. Now the key issue for them is loading for September-October, but to what extent the hotels will be able to load in these months, given the serious reduction in the flow of Russian tourists, is a big question.