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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
I didn't get it again. What did you want to say, meth head? For example, the US citizens are not allowed to travel to Cuba. So if Russia will completely halt flights to Turkey (the government can not forbid people to visit Turkey, but it can cut off the air traffic between our countries), so Turkey will lost a half of its whole touristic flow. What will the Russians do? They will travel to Cyprus and Greece instead. Both are in the same region and both have the same prices as Turkey. FYI: Turkey was very popular here (the 2nd country by the number of Russian tourists after Finland of course) because it was much cheaper than Cyprus and Greece. When the prices have been aligned, there is no difference anymore, so the people have started traveling more to other countries: 5. Russia: $42.8 billion - TheRichest. And another link: Top ten Biggest Spenders on International Tourism | What Country Spends the Most on Tourism | WhichCountry.co
Course the US and Chinese citizens spend more for tourism than Russians, because Russian population is only 140 millions while the USA has over than 2 times more, not even mention the size of Chinese population. So the stats say that an average Russian travels more than the US or Chinese citizen and spends more money. So Turkey is going to lose a lot on the Russian tourists only... |
you keep thumping your chest about Turkey sanctions, but you obviously don't get how trade works... so let me illustrate with a story:
Russian family goes to Turkey with their RUB... they arrive in Istanbul and convert RUB to TRY...
(this is now the key part, so pay attention)
now someone in Turkey is holding RUB...they can't do anything with it except go to some Russian business and use that RUB to buy Russian products...
so for every Russian traveler that doesn't go to Turkey, there is some Russian business that will sell less of it's products...
(the story is a bit oversimplified, but that's the gist of how trade works)
what's funny though, when the discussion was about European sanctions you completely understood this concept, but when it comes to Turkey you seem to think that sanctions work one way...
