Tour operators tell what tourists traded Turkey
In case of refusal to travel to Turkey due to the Coxsackie virus, tourists often choose European and visa-free destinations. Domestic health resorts are in the last positions in the list of preferences.
According to Larisa Akhanova, PR manager of TEZ Tour, travelers are reoriented to Greece, interested in Georgia, Cyprus, Bulgaria. “The rebooking of the Krasnodar Territory does not occur. If the authorities thought that such statements would turn tourists towards Russian resorts, then this is not the case.”
Pegasus CEO Anna Podgornaya: Tourists are replacing Turkey with visa-free countries: Tunisia and Cyprus. Managers strongly recommend Russian resorts to tourists, but everyone refuses. We fly to Crimea from 28 cities, to Sochi from 8 and have not received a single transfer to Russia.
PR manager of the tour operator TUI Tatiana Kruglova says that tourists who refuse to go to Turkey, most often choose Cyprus, Montenegro. Part of the customers after the cancellation of the application again book Turkey - the Aegean coast. She noted that those who changed their mind to go to Antalya, ask Sochi – but less often.
Commercial Director of “NTK Intourist” Sergey Tolchin clarifies that when rebooking choose European countries. If tourists have a Schengen visa, then Greece and Bulgaria, if not – visa-free destinations: Emirates and Tunisia. Domestic resorts are interested in a minority, no more than 30%.
On August 14, Rospotrebnadzor recognized the conditions in Antalya as unsafe for tourists, and then banned tour operators from withholding actually incurred expenses (FPR) in case of cancellation or rebooking of a tour to Turkey due to the risk of infection with the Coxsackie virus.
Source: tourdom