Abstract:

The main area of activity of the tourism sector covers offering products to meet the accommodation and travel requirements of individuals who have been temporary residence for any reason. In addition to these fields of activity, various and organizations aimed at providing a broad travel experience to tourist consumers (food-drink, entertainment, shopping, sports, health, etc.) They can be involved in the tourism industry. The value chain is a concept used to define all the operations that are necessary from the conceptual design of a product or service to the delivery to the final consumer. Therefore, it is possible to express the value chain of tourism as a broad chain network of activities of all suppliers of goods and services involved in the process from the production of tourism products to the delivery to consumers. In the study the value chain approach has been discussed conceptually and the value chain approach has been aimed at raising the applicability and contribution that the value chain approach can provide to the tourism, a service sector. In this context, the work has been based on the quality research method and a conceptual framework has been created by conducting the source and document examination of the subject. As a result of the study, activities such as accommodation, food, transport, shopping and shopping have formed the primary activity elements of the tourism value chain; a number of national and local institutions and organizations that can contribute to the development of tourism in the destination have also formed support activities elements (such as government, local governments, NGOs, health and education institutions). It is also possible to express that the key point of ensuring global competition in the tourism sector by moving from the fact that "every chain is as strong as the weakest ring" is that all stakeholders in the chain are able to move together.