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The aim of this study is to understand the forms and dimensions of the COVID-19 epidemic in the tourism media. To this goal, the first daily news site in the world online is tourismgazetesi.com, which was produced between February 5, 2020 and September 15, 2021 and the data related to 772 news texts related to the epidemic has been collected through the method of document review. The data is subject to content analysis and thematic analysis through the MAXQDA quality data analysis program. According to the analysis, the number of news texts related to the epidemic in 2021 has significantly decreased; the public representation of Turkey takes place at the level of the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Health and the Presidency, and it is followed by Germany, Britain and Spain at the level of the Prime Minister, respectively; according to the frequency of the country’s entry into the news texts, Turkey is followed by Germany, Britain, Spain and Russia. The topics of the newspapers appeared in the 11th chapter. According to this; the economic dimension of the epidemic, the economic support work for tourism, the state of air transport, the methods of fighting the epidemic, the work of building confidence in tourism, the measures towards Turkey, the epidemic protests, the expectations/developments in the epidemic process, the developments in favor of Turkey, the new normal post-regulations and the expectations related to the post-epidemic period.

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