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The emerging developments by globalization process force the organizations to compete each other in order to keep in step with changing world conditions. Thus the organizations apply the competition strategies to continue their existence and not to fall behind the rivals. Lately innovation has become a new approach in competition. Thereby innovation activities play a part in the studies in behalf of outmaneuvering. The radical and incremental innovation activities like product, service, process, marketing and organization are being applied. These innovation activities can provide a competition advantage as attacker, defensive, imitator, dependent, traditional and innovation strategy which use the opportunities according to rival companies or site of action. In this regard the firs main objective of the research is; to determine the innovation activities of three, four and five star hotels which are in business in Kocaeli and to identify the strategies they follow in this direction. The second object is; to determine whether the competition strategies of inclusive hotel managements have determinant qualification on innovation strategies will be applied

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