1.UMAY TOURS/ Turkey - www.umay.net Mr. Demir Unsal - Director :
" I have been in the romanian market for nearly eleven years when the market was very naive when there was no competition and the privat enterprise of romanian travel companies was just growing but now my observation for the last two-three years regarding the romanian market- there is a big competition now and there are one or two big monopolly for every single destination like Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain and the small companies are dissapearing and, for instance, when I first sought to working with companies from Romania....all over the country I have more than forty forty-five....but now, almost all of them disapeared and all small companies are selling the products of big monopoliests, big tour-operators, in exchange for a limited comision but they lost their identity, they don't have any identity anymore, because the product they are selling is somebody's else's product, they don't have their products anymore and, I also noticed that, the romanian people who knows who can afford to travel and have been to Turkey for several times, so now they are looking for alternative destination like Spain, Italy and so one, and they are now these days, I think,less interest in Turkey - as a holliday destination, where I come from, is completely a different destination, not for each holliday only, but because of its rich culture, its arheological values, the life-style of turkish people, food , and rich variety of the products that it provides for the tourists at a very reasonable price, so we are hoping to get our traditional romanian tourists back to Turkey in larger numbers, we still have some, but it is not enough number of romanian tourist we are having nows days".

"Am fost pe piata romaneasca de aproape 11 ani, cand piata era foarte naiva si nu exista competitie, iar initiativa privata a companiilor romanesti de turism era doar in crestere, insa acum, dupa observatia mea in ultimii doi-trei ani in ce priveste piata turistica romaneasca, exista o mare concurenta si 1-2 mari companii ce detin monopol pentru fiecare destinatie ca Turcia, Grecia, Italia, Spania, iar micile companii dispar si, de exemplu, cand am cautat la inceput sa lucrez cu companii din Romania am avut mai mult de 45 de agentii colaboratoare, dar acum aproape toate au disparut si micile companii vand produsele marilor companii monopoliste/ mari tour-operatori, in schimbul unui comision limitat, dar ele si-au pierdut identitatea, nu mai au o identitate, pentru ca produsul pe care il vand este produsul altcuiva, ele nu mai au propriile lor produse.

De asemenea am observat ca, romanii, care se stie ca isi pot permite sa calatoreasca si au fost in Turcia de mai multe ori, astfel incat acum cauta alte destinatii ca: Spania, Italia si asa mai departe, sunt in aceste zile , cred, mai putin interesati de Turcia - ca destinatie pentru concediu, dar de unde vin eu, este o destinatie complet diferita, nu numai pentru fiecare concediu, ci datorita culturii sale bogate, valorilor sale arheologice, stilului de viata al poporului turc, alimentatiei si marii varietatii a produselor pe care le ofera turistilor la un pret foarte rezonabil, astfel incat noi speram sa recuperam turistii romani traditionali inapoi in Turcia in numar tot mai mare, cu toate ca avem o parte, dar nu este un numar suficient al turistilor romani pe care ii avem in aceasta perioada".