"FAKE PANIC IN TOURISM AND FAKE CORNER WRITERS"
// "TURİZMDE SAHTE PANİK VE SAHTE KÖŞE YAZARLARI"
My twenty second column at Modatava.com (English translation below) // Modatava.com'daki yirmi ikinci köşe yazım
http://modatava.com/turizmde-sahte-panik-ve-sahte-kose-yazarlari-3963
You are all following the latest politicial evidences. We shot the Russian planes when they several times entered our prohibited aerial space and Russia took off its citizens to be tourists in Turkiye, also stopped buying fruits and vegetables. Now some people want us to have fake panic in tourism! In fact haven’t we heard last year that Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt bought a summer house in Turkiye/Izmir/Foca? This year they are going to come for vacation..

This couple can pick the most beautiful place from thousands of kilometers away, why not other tourists? If I was a president of a tourism foundation, I would first give up from gun traders and rich people without cultivation. Are we only bounded to Russia? If yes, then esteemed companies, your marketing and your marketing communications are wrong.

When will you give up doing tourism marketing only Russia and Germany centered? There are over 190 countries in the world, you know it right? If my citizen can go all the way to Maldives, why can’t they come all the way from Maldives? The whole country is not needed to come; one group from there, another group from somewhere else, Turkiye will be overfilled. But Turkiye gets surprised that you don’t want this!

First of all let’s leave that “Blue Mosque Blue Mosque” (Sultanahmet Mosque) show aside, tourists don’t come to Istanbul only for mosque or Eminonu region. I wonder when you are going to start telling about and marketing Istanbul as a whole, a metropolitan with Bosphorus. And when will you remove off that Arab hat fez from being sold wrongly wrongly in touristic shops??

When will you remember that tourism is not limited with Aegean and Mediterranean shores?

When will you preclude a bottle of water being sold for 30 Turk Liras and one hamburger for 120 Turk Liras in Bodrum place where attracts the tourists most? What can I do if the gun traders afford to give that money? Does everyone have to be a gun trader?

If you always send the people who should never be corner writers, should never do TV programmes to even unimportant, smallest provinces of Europe and pomp to have trips in Europe to Turkiye citizens, you make inner tourism this much upside down. People who call Prague as a love city, don’t even know the map of Turkiye! I pass the idea that they are corner writers, it already smells so heavily that they were done favor..