Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Victoria Craig.

Coming up, inflation is a battle people all over the world are fighting. It's particularly acute in

Turkey where making ends meet is forcing many people to make very difficult decisions.

I will be making a lot less money than I used to do before COVID.

Prices are a lot more expensive, so things are not still looking bright.

A mix of soaring inflation and a currency that's lost nearly half its value has created a cost-of-living crisis in the country.

While that's put a tight squeeze on household budgets, a weaker currency has

actually been helpful for the nation's tourism industry. If you had got a reasonably strong

tourism season, this helps to support the linear and helps bring down inflation to a certain

degree. It makes the central bank's job a little bit easier. The question is, can a sector that brought

in $34 billion before the coronavirus pandemic pummeled it be enough to offset Turkey's wider economic woes?

To find out, we'll take you to the tourist hotspots in the country's biggest city right here on Business Daily from the BBC.

Yeah. from the BBC. On a sunny weekday in midwinter, the Friday prayer breaks the afternoon silence between

Istanbul's historic blue mosque and its highest ofia.

The former is a sacred place of worship built in the 17th

century. Inside features thousands of handmade ceramic tiles depicting 50 individual tulip designs.

It's considered to be the last great mosque of the Ottoman Empire's classical period.

The latter was the largest Christian church of the Eastern Roman Empire,

built more than a thousand years before the Blue Mosque. It has a dome spanning 105 feet and was

converted into a mosque, then it became a museum. Now, it's a mosque again. Both religious and

architectural marvels helped draw millions of tourists and worshippers to the city each year.

On this early afternoon, the carefully groomed green gardens between the two structures

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