Tourism professional Deniz Tüfekçi discusses the damage done by slanderous activities in the sector to the image of tourism. Tüfekçi emphasizes that the losses of low-cost tours offered to tourists from the Far East cannot be compensated with extra sales such as balloons, stones and night tours, and suggests that this situation may actually be directly related to money laundering activities in the sector. He states that in an environment where the cost in the USA is 50%, reducing the cost to 20% under the camouflage of tourism is an indication of how profitable these dark activities are. Tüfekçi points out that despite the ban on selling tours below cost, some tourism operators increase their assets without paying attention to this ban, and states that these negative practices in the sector damage the general image of tourism and are incompatible with the understanding of sustainable tourism.
Here is Deniz Tüfekçi’s entire article…
SELLING TOURS BELOW THE COST IS ALSO PROHIBITED BY THE CURRENT REGULATION
Does our sector carry the image of a sector where people make a living through “Knowing”? Prices – 350 dollars below the cost given to tourists brought from the Far East – cannot be easily compensated with balloons, stones, night tours, carpets, hanut bought from my well or sales. It seems that those who do this job under those conditions are doing such profitable business that they add property to their property, properties to their property, and hotels to their hotels. In the sector where the rain was minimal, everyone inevitably began to ask where the water for this mill was coming from. One of the ways to cover this is through money laundering. They say that the cost of “Money laundry” is not below 50% in the USA, it is said that the cost of money laundering in this system remains below 20% with tourism camouflage. According to some, it’s a honey pastry.
HAS OUR SECTOR BEEN TURNED INTO A MONEY LAUNDERING MACHINE?
It is unfair to all of us to place such an accusation on the industry. But it is useful to take a look at those tour operators that are much praised and provide a lot of foreign currency inflow. If only MASAK would be curious and take a look at what the tour operators bringing tourists from the Far East sell there for how much, their costs there, find out who is doing what and how, and do what is necessary. We say it should be done, but do we have an economic management that says the country needs foreign currency, no matter where it comes from, as long as foreign currency comes in? That is another issue. Let them do it, let them do it… The philosophy continues to dominate in its most brutal form.
Apparently, some of our colleagues have increased the purity level to the point where they can deal with 24 carat gold.
THERE IS NO GUIDANCE IN TURKISH, BUT CAN THERE BE GUIDANCE IN KURDISH!!!
The understanding of obliging and being obliged can never be successful. Opposing Turkish guidance and imposing the obligation to know another language is against fundamental human rights. Having to know another language, which does not contribute to our Turkish-speaking guests to whom we provide information, is of no benefit to OUR GUESTS OR AGENCIES. Knowing the Zuwaili language has a cultural, objective, natural, artistic, political, historical, etc. effect on my country. How can it contribute to explaining the subject? The way to limit the number is not to do such things, but to bring conditions that will increase the quality. After seeing the deplorable state of their graduates, I began to understand better that those who turned the subject of guidance into a university education subject, that those private universities were content with just taking money. I guess the past TUREB managements, who supported this decision, have now realized what a mistake they made when they saw the situation. There may not be a requirement for a guide, especially for travel agencies that engage in domestic tourism, but qualified tour leaders are something that every travel agency will need.
ATTEMPTING TO MAKE AN EGGLESS OMELET
He hires a guide at the point he needs and allows his guests to benefit from that service. Naturally, travel agencies that organize cultural tours cannot tour without a guide. Trying to do a cultural tour without a guide is like trying to make an omelet without eggs.Nothing can be done by force, everyone has to maintain their quality and run their business successfully. Although the labor given is the same, the fact that the daily wage base of Turkish guides is 30% cheaper than that of foreign language guides is against labor, human rights and the concept of equal pay for equal work.
I think the guides did not feel the need to go into this part of the issue at this stage because they were against Turkish guidance.
