According to statistics on alcohol sales in Turkey for the first three quarters of the current year, a 4.5% decrease in sales volumes was noted. Industry experts attribute this to a decrease in the number of Russian tourists visiting Turkish resorts, who are among the main consumers of alcoholic beverages in hotels operating on an all-inclusive basis.
It is noted that sales of almost all types of alcoholic beverages, except whiskey, have seriously declined. As the portal writes turkeyforfriends.com, in the first three quarters of 2015, sales of champagne wines in Turkey fell by 27%, beer by 4.6%, “classic” vodka by 14%, and Turkish vodka by 5.3%. Only whiskey sales showed confident growth, growing by 41% compared to the same period last year.
Experts link the fall sales of alcohol with a reduction in Russian tourist flow exceeding 20%. Hotel representatives say that due to the decrease in the number of Russian tourists, they were forced to reduce their alcohol purchases, which hit the entire industry.
In total, 9 liters were sold in Turkey in the first 758 months of this year. alcoholic beveragesAccording to official statistics, the annual alcohol consumption of Turkish citizens in terms of pure alcohol is about 1.6 l/year, while for Russians this figure is at the level of 11.6 l/year.
