Will Alcohol Price Increases Affect Turkey Tourism?

[amca]

There are mini bars in some hotels in Istanbul that charge that already.

[Scunner]

I blame Mete

[KKOB]

and you'll get a voucher for a free holiday in Syria.

[Carol.Parr]

Yes it will I have had my house in Koca Calis for 4 years. I love Turkey it might be ok for holiday makers not to worry about what they spend, but people who live there, pay their bills, its not good. Thank goodness for corks and cappers. Might have to give up drinking!

Goverment dont spoil what you have!

[Scunner]

 Might have to give up drinking!

Steady on Carol!

[marina]

Yes it will I have had my house in Koca Calis for 4 years. I love Turkey it might be ok for holiday makers not to worry about what they spend, but people who live there, pay their bills, its not good. Thank goodness for corks and cappers. Might have to give up drinking!

Goverment dont spoil what you have!

Think that's the problem though Carol - it is going to affect holidaymakers as well as people who live there permanently and visit regularly if they own their own place. 

It's not just the drinks, it's the flights and eating out becoming more expensive and tourists want value for money and don't want to feel like they're being ripped off.

[GordonA]

We're doomed, doomed I tell ye!! 

[SuzzPuss]

The point is, if in future I have to spend (say) 8 quid for a beer, I'd probably not.

OMG!!  Do you think it could come to that?  I really hope not.  We went to Norway a few years ago.  Beautiful place and lovely people but about £7.50 a pint.  We're glad we've been but we probably wouldn't go back.  Can't afford it.

[Scunner]

Yes I do - Turkey suffers from a very widespread cash economy and this results in huge losses of tax revenue. So they have to tax the things they have control over (imports, petrol, alcohol duties) very heavily to compensate - you couldn't fill your car with petrol and pay cash to avoid paying the duty for example. That is why these things are so bloody expensive.

I can certainly see the 8 quid pint, if it is for fiscal reasons. This Islamic government insist it is for those reasons and not religious ones (laws based on religious beliefs are not allowed in this secular country). All this from a party lead by a man who asks "why drink wine when you can eat grapes"...

[bewva]

Sadly it will affect tourism IMHO. We go over to our place about 3 times a year but it is getting so expensive now. If we didnt own we would be off elsewhere without a doubt.