Bad news for wedding owners in Istanbul! Decided to tackle the industry, there will be one day off per week
ISTDO President Adem Sönmez said that at the beginning of the sectors most affected by the Kovid-19 epidemic during the wedding period, it returned to routine operation with normalization.
Expressing that the sector has had a good period of surgery this year, Sönmez also gave the following information: “In Istanbul, it completed 120 thousand years in 2019. In 2020, this number dropped to 50 thousand with the pandemic. 130 thousand in 2021, 38 percent in 2022. Our reservations are going very well. Between 200 thousand and 220 thousand weddings are expected to be held in Istanbul this year. We won again.”
Sönmez said that they started work in the wedding industry to have a holiday on Tuesday ceremonies and that they saw Istanbul as a pilot region in these stays, and continued as follows: “They made a decision about the Tuesday holidays of the wedding hall, where they had meetings and consultations with their friends in the industry. Women’s hairdressers, beauty workers In the consultations they produced with the professional chambers, they also stated that they consider it more suitable for a Tuesday birthday, and that they can also comply with this decision.
As the Chamber of Craftsmen, we have reported this to the Governorship of Istanbul, the Union of Chambers of Istanbul Tradesmen and Craftsmen and the Ministry of Commerce. Last week, we had a meeting with the deputy governor of Istanbul and it was positive. Our tradesmen are waiting for the Governor of Istanbul to approve this guarantee. We expect it to set an example for the whole of Turkey, which will be launched as a pilot in Istanbul.”
Expressing that they demanded the VAT reduction in the food sector for the wedding sector, Sönmez said, “Our request from the President is the provisions of a notification to the couples who will marry in 2023 to fix the VAT rates. As the wedding sector, we are ready to fix our prices in the first half of 2023 with the reduction of VAT rates. ” he said.
The wedding party does not only hold a wedding hall, but also touches 242 goods in the market together with the wedding hall. Here, the sector touches the production from the real estate sector to the jeweler, from white goods to furniture, from textiles to painters. That’s why he is exhibiting from our state on VAT.”