Özet:

The importance in the globalized world is a field of activity that increases daily in the tourism sector, currency income, its positive impact on the balance of external payments, its employment and tax income and the economic impact in a positive direction. Tourism, which includes many different types of services, leads to increased production and consumption in the economy. As many different sectors are easily influenced, it is in a sector where countries give priority, where governments aim to further develop through various policies and practices. Like many developing countries, the progress of the tourism sector in our country is of great importance in terms of economic growth. Tourism income provides currency income to the country’s economies and directly affects the balance of payments. In this context, the study aimed at identifying the effects of the tourism sector on the external trade balance, the relationship between the tourism income and the external trade balance was tried to predict by the method of artificial nerve networks. In the external trade balance forecast covering the period 2013-2020, the tourism revenues for the same period were used as model revenues as artificial nerve networks input and the analysis was carried out with monthly data obtained from the TÜIK.

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