Reports of Turkey’s tourism industry "imploding" appeared earlier this month, with the Zaman newspaper counting some 1,300 hotels put up for sale across the country, 400 of them in Antalya.
"The government has buried its head in the sand, ignoring the decline in tourism," Republican People’s Party (CHP) Ankara lawmaker Akin Ustundag said in remarks published on the CHP website, citing a total of 908 resorts on sale on the Aegean coast.
Tourism in Turkey has suffered as the security situation declined amid Islamic State jihadist group and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) separatist violence dating back to last summer.
Tourism continued declining after Russia banned organized travel of its tourist groups to the republic in the wake of the November 24 downing of a Russian Su-24 attack aircraft by turkey over alleged airspace violation.