Since the late 1960s, the "All inclusive" serving principle has been successfully applied on some ocean liners cruising the Caribbean. Well, here the idea of making the concept “land” was just a stone’s throw away. Strange as it may seem, the main impetus was the global oil crisis that broke out in the early 1970s. People began to travel much less, and this harmed tourism, and businessmen thought about innovations that could attract new visitors to restaurants. One of the first full all-inclusive hotels was the Negril Beach Hotel (now Hedonism II) in Jamaica, which opened in 1976.
Soon, many Caribbean islands blossomed with inclusive hotels. This new product was received with "Hurray!" But this is true and remained an exotic form of holiday on the “paradise” islands for wealthy citizens, if at the end of the 1980s Turkey, which at that moment felt a “hotel boom,” began to copy it. Türkiye has launched the all-inclusive system for public use. The popularity of the all inclusive principle has led to the fact that even 2-3 star hotels began to switch to this system. Today, almost 90% of hotels in Antalya and 50% of Marmaris and Bodrum operate on this principle!
Further more: tourists, having tried the inexpensive Turkish “inclusive”, began to demand it in other countries. This rapid development covered Bulgaria, Tunisia, Egypt, Croatia - and this happened relatively recently.
