Bird flu is like rubbing salt into the wounds. There have not been cancellations but there is a slowdown in bookings.

The Turkish tourism sector performed extraordinarily in the two years 2004 and 2005... But in 2006, we won't see leaps like those we saw in those two years.

Whether it's fair or not, you can't bat an eyelash at the . . . threat of a bird flu pandemic and how that affects sales, and how that affects access to international markets and chicken prices as far as supplies.

Our goal was that poultry would not get infected by bird flu and we were successful in this.

Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can be quite sure that the bird flu virus will remain in the wild bird population in Switzerland for years to come ? our guess is about five-20 years.

an eventual bird flu epidemic.