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This study has two goals and two methods used to these goals. One of the objectives is to reveal the comparative advantages in the tourism sector of Turkey and the five high-income tourism countries. The other objective is to monitor the comparative export performance of Turkey against these five countries. The RCA (Explained Comparative Excellence) index is widely used in the measurement of industry competitiveness to the first goal, and the CEP (Comparative Export Performance) index is also used to the second goal. According to the RCA index, Turkey’s competitive advantage in the tourism sector has been high. According to the CEP index, Turkey’s export performance is only low against Thailand.

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