AKTOB President Kaan Kaşif Kavaloğlu, who spoke with Mesut Yar at the panel titled 'Burada Turizm Çok ', organized by our Tourismjournal news site at Antalya Sherwood Exclusive Kemer Hotel, stated that they achieved a significant momentum in April.
Kaan Kaşif Kavaloğlu emphasized that the number of tourists coming to Antalya in April exceeded 2 million and he stated that we had a record-breaking April and there was a 45 percent increase compared to the same period of the previous year.
UKRAINE MARKET LOST 90 PERCENT
Kavaloğlu: “If Russian tourists come this year, we will have a good season. Because there is no market that can make up a shortage of the Russian market. Our source markets Russia and Ukraine, are still fighting .From this point of view, the Ukrainian market has disappeared by 90 percent. Until April 30, 10 thousand Ukrainians came to Antalya. I think these are the ones who have settled down. Russia fell below the German market for the first time. If 3.5 million Russian tourists are brought to the city, we will catch 15 million. For Antalya, there is the UK market, which is more than 1 million and it is has a positive effect . There are 1.5 million people in this market.There are 55-60 million packages out of Germany and England to world tourism. We still have a long way to go in the UK market. Antalya and Türkiye are world tourism. Tourism professionals catch the 2019 revenue figure, but they cannot achieve profitability for a very long time," he said.
EUROPEAN TURKS AND DOMESTIC TOURISTS ARE INDISPENSABLE TO US
Kaan Kaşif Kavaloğlu, noted that the costs have increased by more than one hundred percent due to the increasing inflation, and he added “The exchange rate is also below our expectations.Profitability will not reach 2019 profitability for a long time. Domestic tourism is indispensable to Antalya.There are two source markets that do not leave us. The second market is European Turks. It means a very good resource in times of crisis. But we care about the domestic market not only in time of crisis, but also throughout the season.”