£4,000 crore – according to how many Indian tourists they spend in Turkey and Azerbaijan in 2024, according to industrialist Harsh Goen. Travel Company Easemytrip’s Nishant Pitti noted and £3,000 crore will spend a year before. This is at stake, because social media requires a boycott of Turkey and Azerbaijan gains steam.
Why hullabaloo? Turkey and Azerbaijan expressed the open support of Pakistan when India hit nine terrorist camps in the country and Pakistan occupied by Kashmir (POK) 7 May under the Sindoor operation. The strikes came after a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, which claimed 26 lives in April.
In response, many Indian travelers cancel trips to Turkey and Azerbaijan – the first is a popular European budget destination and both countries have placed high among those tourists who decided £1-2 lakh per person travel packages.
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Boycott Turkey, Azerbaijan: What has happened so far?
There is no official challenge to boycott, but Netizen created buzzing on social media. And that had some impact. According to Statimemt of Makemythrip 14. May in the last week, flight reservations have dropped to these two nations by 60 percent, while the abolition jumped by 250 percent.
“Indian travelers have expressed strong sentiments over the last week, while Azerbaijan and Türkiy’s reservation decreased by 60 percent, while the cancellation increased by 250 %over the same period. He said.
Makemytrip further removed all promotional events and offers for these goals from its platforms. They are not alone. Similar movements were made Easemytrip, Cox & Kings, Ixigo and Travomint.
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How much can the boycott of Indian passengers have?
Nishant Pitti, founder and chairman of Easemytrip in a post on the Social Media Platform (former Twitter), also made Indian tourists in these countries who buy strength.
In his post x Harsh Goenka noted that the Indians gave up £4,000 crore to Turkey and Azerbaijan through tourism in 2024, which “created jobs, strengthened their economy, hotels, weddings, flights (sic)”. He added that in India and the world there are “a lot of beautiful places. Please skip these two places (sic)”.
According to Pitti, more than 2,87 lakh Indian tourists visited Turkey in 2023, by 25 % year -on -year (year -on -year) from 2.3 MAKH visitors in 2022. He also estimated expenditure on the Indian tourist in Turkey for $ 1,200-1,500 (approximately £1,02,600-1,28 200). Furthermore, the total estimated Indian tourist expenditure in Turkey in 2023, according to Pitti was between $ 350-400 million (approximately £3,000 crore).
He added that 12 % of Turkish GDP and 10 % of his job depends on tourism, with India being one of the fastest growing sources.
“Why does it matter: Indian tourists have high expenditure strength, leading to key contributors to foreign economies. It consciously redirects the flow of tourism, we reduce economic support to countries that occupy anti-indicial positions.
He added that more than 25 million (2.5 crore) Indians travel every year abroad, with outgoing tourism expected to reach $ 44 billion by 2032.
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The numbers are really big. According to the Azerbaijan Council, 2,43,589 Indians visited the country in 2024 – in 2014 of only 4,853.
For Turkey, according to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, arrivals in 2024 amounted to 3 30 000 – compared to 119 503 in 2014.
Rikant Pittie, CEO for Easemytrip told Reuters that the platform recorded a 22 % increase in the abolition for Turkey and 30 % for Azerbaijan, while travelers joined Georgia, Serbia, Greece, Thailand and Vietnam.
Jyoto Mayal, former president of the Association of Travel Agents, also said that up to 50 percent of outgoing reservations for Turkey and Azerbaijan were canceled. “We helped a lot in the tourism industry and supported Turkey and Azerbaijan. We have to show our displeasure about how they behaved with India. We are not supporting travel to these countries,” she said.
(With the entry from agencies)
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