Abstract:

Tourism is recognized as one of the important service sector of countries in economic and social majors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Turkey. In the study, the relationship between tourism and economic growth for the period 1963-2011 were examined through the Johansen cointegration test and the Toda Yamamoto causality test. According to Johansen cointegration test in the long run there is a cointegration realitionship between tourism and economic growth. Granger causality test based on VECM model indicated that there was uni-directional relationship from tourism to economic growth but the results which derived from Toda-Yamomato causality test indicated that in Turkey there was no causality from tourism to economic growth or no causality from economic growth to tourism

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