The growth at tourism industry which is also known as smokeless industry makes a huge contribution for sectors over 200 among which textile takes places. With settling of 350 hotels which took investment incentive and use especially home textile from carpets to curtains, it is expected to create about a 3,5 billon dollars work load. According to a research made by The Association of Turkish Home Textile Industrialists and Businessmen (TETSIAD), home textile is growing 15% each year with the effect of growth on tourism, health and construction sectors.
New opportunities are born
About the subject, the President of Tourism Investors’’ Association, Murat Ersoy said that lots of business opportunities are born especially at textile and carpet sectors with the new investments in tourism. Ersoy who referred that the producers from textile sector could take their shares from the pie by getting in touch with the hotel investors, said “While it was a trend to make hotel investment by bringing hotel products from foreign countries before, in our day, it is possible to build the most luxury facilities with the products produced in Turkey. Turkish manufacturers can also take their share from the pie which sector creates”.
Textile is a must for tourism
The Vice Chairman of the Board of Elite World Hotels, Vedat Elik said that with the rise on hotel investments, textile and curtain sectors also developed. Elik said “In a hotel, the products such as curtain, tulle, bedclothes, sheet, bed lining, piqué and towels are the indispensable products. And this means that tourism create a work load for these sectors every period”.
The needs are met from home market
The Member of the Board of Royal Halı ( Royal Carpet), Cihan Dagcı who said the increase on home and hotel investments in recent years made an important business work load for carpet business sector also added that hotels were the most important and the best partner of the carpet sector and it was positively affected for both investments and trends and said “As being carpet sector, we develop trend products which have importance globally for fast growing tourism sector. Thus both our sector develops itself and the needs of tourism sector are met by home market”.
Textile is also making investment with tourism
The Chairman of the Board of Step Halı (Step Carpet) who referred that every new hotel built in Turkey provides business load for many sectors especially for carpet and textile sectors, said “While making hotel investments, textile products from carpet to curtain, from sheet to bed clothing and to towel are needed. These products which are the fixtures of a hotel help our sector increasing the work load”.
İncreasing of hotel investments with the revival on construction sector, carpet production facility investments are increasing in Turkey as well in recent years. Within this frame, Sengor who remarked the carpet looms’ investment in Gaziantep, expressed that with the growth on construction sector and the increase at hotel investments, these investments were increasing as well.