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Extract from today's Turkish Daily News:

'An increase in the price of oil and tension on Turkey's borders will have a negative impact on tourism industry expectations in Turkey, said Başaran Ulusoy, president of the Turkish Association of Travel Agents (TURSAB).

Başaran indicated that this year's reservations did not match last year's figures. Expecting the negative figures to rally towards the end of the month, he said Turkey was a country of tourism, a sector that is inherently risky. “We went into this season with numerous problems. Bird flu was one. And then came the Iranian crisis. More importantly, there are crises that are not so apparent, ones that really count, for instance, the price of oil, which went up 120 percent from $30 to $75 per barrel. There are things, of course, that are directly influenced by such increases. Faced with the skyrocketing price of oil, the government responds by increasing the entry tax, which is one more negative effect on flight reservations to Turkey. According to our projections, we will lose 4 million tourists this year. And there is no such thing as foreign tour operators working against us. German or Spanish, all a tour operator is interested in is making money. This is the main idea in a business in which there are no boundaries.”

Anyone aware of an impending increase in entry visa prices from the current £10 per person?

ginap

Shoot me down if i'm wrong but I think I was told once that the reason flights to Turkey were expensive was because of the ammount of entry tax the airlines were charged to land here....could this be the tax being mentioned and not the personal entry visa as of course this would have a direct impact on us anyway as the airlines would simply increase airfares to cover these costs

aitchij

Well I hope I've just read the wrong info on the consulate general site.
visa information of uk document holders then at the bottom of the page visafees and payment cos it says multi entry up to 3 months 38 GBP
mult entry up to 2 year 70 GBP
Multi entry up to 5 year 88.GBP
Hope I'm on the wrong thing altogether going into work to check if we have any new info. gail

speedy

Not sure where you got the info from?

http://www.turkishconsulate.org.uk/en/visa/default.asp

Still shows £10 for 3 month visa

Paul

aitchij

www.turkishconsulate.org.uk/en/visa.htm scroll to the very bottom second last entry
visa fees and payment. As I say I will be delighted to be wrong Gail
I do see where is states 10.00 but when I did my original search it took me to the other fees and was showing today date

jane2005

It also says Residence Visa £75 for up to 1 year. What's going on?????

starman

That is the big con the consulate has going to stiff people. There is no need to buy a residents visa what so ever.
So many people go there, spend a fortune getting to London, get stiffed for 75 quid per person, only to find out they still have to register with the local police when they arrive in Turkey and pay again for the residence permit (Blue book).
Basically if you have 75 pounds to burn and waste then please, goto the consulate.

speedy

Looks like they need to correct whichever is the error as the footnote 4 states £10.00, and as you correctly pointed out the link takes you to a page with a completely different amount. Guess a phone call is needed here to clarify the situation.

My daughters have just returned from Turkey and they paid the usual £10.00

Paul

aitchij

Im hoping is the higher charges that are wrong, it wont do them any favours, family of 4, 1 holidays a year 152.00 instead of 40.00 that will go down like a lead ballon...