Abstract:

Turkish tourism sector which was operating in a sloth way for long years, has entered in a rapid growth trend by Tourism Incentive Law came into force at 1983, and by the supports of governments. In the first years, expenditures for touristic investments has been done, afterwards the investments has returned as outsourced currency incomes for the country. In this way, the number of incoming tourists and tourism revenue of Turkey has been reached to 26,337 million tourists and $16,761 million at 2008, while it was 1,625 million tourists and $411 million at 1983. Nowadays, tourism is one of the indispensable sectors for Turkey. This situation in terms of tourism economy can be considered as a major transformation. As it mentioned above, tourism sector in Turkey, has been started to develop by 1980s. In this context, in our paper, via secondary sources, the importance of tourism sector at Turkish Economy is handled; and by the data of tourism sector between the years of 1980-2009; the changes in economic terms were analyzed.

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