Turkey : Dev Turizm-İş Chairman Yahyaoğlu: Tourism staff not ready for the season

It is making significant preparations to open the tourism season in Turkey. In this context, a corona certificate requirement was made by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for opening the hotels to the season. Hotels must meet 132 criteria, including social distance, strict hygiene measures, and staff pandemic training to obtain the certificate. Depending on the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions (DISK) Chairman Mustafa Safvet Devin Tourism Business Yahyaoğlu, the spokesman said in a statement assesses the current status of hotels in Turkey.

Yahyaoğlu, who said that some criteria were introduced for the opening of the hotels and that the staff had training on the pandemic at the beginning, pointed out that the hotels have not yet prepared for the training of the staff.

“NO PREPARATION ON THE PERSONNEL IS MADE”

Stating that a certificate is required for opening to the hotels, Yahyaoğlu said, “The criteria are determined at the beginning. However, a study has not yet been started in hotels related to these criteria. It is said that the hotels will open on the 28th of May, although it has not started. Neither staff was recruited nor training was given to them. A study could not be conducted on how the personnel will protect themselves or the customer from the disease. In other words, this process has turned into an unprepared ‘open it up’. This is not the right practice. Scientific board members say this is not true. They say that the season decision is timeless, early, that they do not believe that swimming and swimming can secure the health, it is early. Although it seems that it is not transmitted by water, if there are many people in the pool or in the sea at the same time, if there is a person carrying a virus, it will infect others. ”

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“THERE ARE A LITTLE OF LULES WHICH WILL BRING OFF”

Stating that the opening date of the hotels is early in spreading the disease, Yahyaoğlu said, “There are many risks in this regard, but the reason for the managers to take these risks is that they cannot manage the economy. In other words, there are some burdens of being closed. When asked to stay closed, it will have to endure burdens. By changing the status of being closed under the name of normalization, it turns to “take care of your job, get back to work.” It is not healthy, but it is clear that the country’s economy is not suitable for being closed. Neither the unemployment fund has workers with 135 billion pounds of accumulated money, nor the collateral money allocated as “shroud money” at the Central Bank. All of these were spent in previous years. Unfortunately, there is no accumulation in the hands of the state in the pandemic at this point. As such, ‘let’s open businesses, let’s open hotels, let the economy wheel turn, the market does not expect a support from me, the sick gets sick, everyone turns to work.”

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“IF THE HOTELS OPEN 30-25 PERCENT, 80 PERCENT TOURISM STAFF WILL BE UNEMPLOYED”

Expressing that less than 30 percent of the hotels will be opened during the Corona virus process, Yahyaoğlu said, “It is very good if the hotels can find 25 or 15 percent customers when they are opened. “If there is less than 40 percent occupancy, hotels will be damaged, it is better not to open our hotels under these conditions”, says the head of the hotel managers association. However, in this case, operators with hotel chains seem to open one or two hotels and look at the situation. I do not believe that the season will come to life this year. Almost all of the foreign tourists will not come. In the economic sense, the whole world has suffered, that is, the individuals have lost their income in this process. Now the tourist is in an environment where he does not know what the future health conditions are … What kind of assurance will be given, can it be said, ‘Come here, there is a guarantee that he will not lose his health’? In this case, if 30-25 percent of the hotels are opened, 80 percent of the tourism personnel will be unemployed. When we look at 2020, 80 percent of the hotel employees will not be able to do work. They will start with the missing staff in the hotels to be opened ”.

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