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International transport links is one of the most important issues for the tourism sector owing to development of tourism, competition, opening of new areas to tourism and affection of tourism demand. International tourism movement takes place along certain routes. Departure point of tourist creates network between routes and destinations and emerges distribution pattern. The route of direction in other words the flow direction of trasport will be changed, blocked, restricted, extended or  reduced the distance of flow by many factors such as climatic conditions, attractiveness, technological innovation, political developments, campaigns, individual reasons etc. Distribution pattern of international tourism transport can be analyzed with four scales: neighboring countries, regions, continental and cross-continental. Since the 1950s, The flow direction and distribution pattern of trasport has also changed for the reason that the tourist generating and receiving countries in the world has considerably changed as number and space. Keywords: Tourist flow, route, corridor, destination, distribution pattern