Because of the news spread in Russia about the Coxsackie virus, the tourist flow to Turkey decreased by 15%. Russian tourists in the second half of August wrote about 1200 calls related to problems on vacation in Turkey, including those with enterovirus infection (the Coxsackie virus). This is reported by Rospotrebnadzor. "From August 14 to August 28, 2017, Rospotrebnadzor appealed more than 1,700 citizens with complaints of violation of their rights in the field of outbound tourism, of which about 1,200 cases are directly related to the organization of recreation in the Turkish Republic," the report says.. It is noted that the department continues to receive messages from Russian tourists who became infected with enterovirus infection in Turkey. Assistance has already been rendered in compiling over 200 claims against tour operators. 12 lawsuits were filed to protect the property interests of tourists. Earlier in August, Rospotrebnadzor recognized as unsafe for health tourists conditions in the Turkish Gulf Antalya because of the outbreak of the Coxsackie virus. At the same tour operators did not fix mass refusals from tours to Turkey, and tourists themselves, vacationers at the resorts, said that they learned about the virus from the news already in Russia itself. According to Russian tour operators, information about the Coxsackie virus reduced the demand for rest in Turkey in August by 15%. As reported by Correspondent. net, in 2017 the flow of tourists from Russia to Turkey has grown tens of times. Only in Antalya for the first six months rested 1.
1 million Russians. It is also forecasted that in 2017 2.6 million tourists from the Russian Federation will visit Antalya. Earlier in the Crimea complained of the difficulties of competition with Turkey. "Minister of Resorts and Tourism" Sergei Strelbitsky was preparing a letter to the government of Russia with a request to help the Crimea in the struggle for the tourist market.
Original article: Russians wrote more than a thousand complaints after a holiday in Turkey.