Tapestry Holidays has added extra capacity to its new Uncommercial Cephalonia programme to try and counteract a fall in bookings to its core destination of Turkey.
The move to increase its capacity on its Greek programme follows a number of cancellations to Turkish resorts following the threat of terrorist attacks in the country, after the leader of the Kurdish terrorist group PKK Abdullah Ocalan was arrested.
Sales director Andrew Lee said: “The situation in Turkey has cost us around 2,000 sales and even though we are quite close to getting back to normal figures, two weeks ago we were selling only 10% of the holidays to Turkey we were selling at the same time last year.”
The company has also added 15 new properties to its Cephalonia programme.
The Turkish Tourist Office has already reduced airport tax by 25% to ú7. It has also slashed 50% off refuelling costs for charter flights in an attempt to fight a 4% drop in UKvisitors to the destination in the last 12 months (Travel Weekly April 12).