"Turkey faces a drop of at least 40% in tourist arrivals this year, with political and security issues to blame."
It is a picture repeated across Antalya and throughout the country: Turkish tourism is in crisis. A country that welcomed 37 million visitors in 2014 - then the sixth most popular tourist destination in the world - is expected to see a drop of at least 40% this year.
The main decline is the Russian market, the four-and-a-half million Russian tourists who were coming have fallen in number by around 95%. The trigger was Turkey shooting down a Russian military jet which violated Turkish airspace last November, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The Kremlin seethed, barring Russian tour companies from selling package deals to Turkey. President Vladimir Putin told Russians to holiday elsewhere.
Our society has been shaped by the migration of its southern residents into northern and western cities. While our cities are overflowing with rural citizens, life in rural America is slowly vanishing to life in the city. Just like times in early America, lack of employment opportunities in the rural America and the blooming business industry in the city, those who had family roots set in rural America are having too uproot their family and relocate in order to participate in the economic trade.
I think society itself evolves from the past. Alot of new ventures emerge and society adapts to that. Alot of rural areas have evaporated as a new force of urban planning has emerged where more developed cities have increased and more small cities are being recognized and developed into a more open society. Ghost towns are being more destroyed and created into a opportunity where a driven society will create businesses for people with no jobs.
People move from rural areas to urban areas in the US. This pattern has shifted the notion the founder fathers had when creating this great nation when they envisioned a mostly farming society where people own the land.