according to the world's travel and tourism council tourism is turkey's 2nd most important sector of the construction it accounts for 12 percent of turkey's g.d.p. and our correspondent joins us now from istanbul to what actual damage was already caused by the thomas cook insolvency the way you will. well here is temple well i am right now is probably a different story but the south and coastal resorts around mom are isn't fadia that are particularly popular with british tourists are likely to be among the worst hit . tourists continue to leave turkey thousands have already left since monday the day thomas cook collapsed according to official figures more than 20000 british gas of thomas cook were on holiday here in turkey when the announcement came so the damage has been done tourism associations hotel owners fear of painful consequences especially smaller hotels who have worked for thomas cook and who haven't been paid yet imagine you are a smaller business a smaller hotel mid-range size hotel and you're not receiving 100200000 pounds or euro's or more this season than this could co

tourism into hong kong. we are joined by alice chan, executive director of the travel industry council of hong kong, representing the inbound andund travel agents in hong kong. welcome to the program. how bad are things? >> they are really bad. the travel industry is suffering, both inbound and outbound business suffering. mainlanding about the inbound tour groups. 300 groupshave 200, visiting hong kong per day in august for some years. but for this august, we only have an average of 80 groups per day. and for the last 10 days of august, we only had about 40 groups visiting. for two groups from -- tour groups from other overseas markets, we have seen at least a 15% drop in tourism numbers. david: we know it's bad. we know july was bad. do you have early numbers on august? how does august look? >> august was bad. according to the hong kong tourism board, the first half of august, we had a 30% drop in arrivals year on year. stephen: how does this compare to other crises? i've lived in hong kong for the better part of almost 30 years now. i've lived through the asian financial crisis, through sars, through the umbrella movement. h