Turkey hopes for British tourists as German bookings fall
Turkey's tourist sector is pinning its hopes on Britain removing it from a Covid-19 travel red list later in the week to assist it get over the pandemic, a spate of wildfires, and Germany's designation of Turkey as high risk.
While Turkish tourism has seen a robust rebound from last year, with foreign visitor arrivals for July jumping fourfold to 4.36 million, it remains well below pre-pandemic levels.
Many hotels within the southern Aegean region, which rely heavily on British tourists, may accessible the top of August if Britain doesn't remove Turkey from its red list, tourism officials say.
Turkey's economy is heavily reliant on foreign currency revenues from Russian, German and British tourists. While the Russian market has performed well, Germany's classification of Turkey as a high-...