Proceedings of the 24th International Academic Conference, Barcelona

ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF TOURISM TO ECONOMY

DÖNDÜ İLKAYA, YAŞAR AYŞEGÜL OĞUZ

Abstract:

Since the 1900s, the tourism sector has been getting more significance as an economic activity both in Turkey and worldwide. To develop foreign exchange, to create new job opportunities, and to have more money to pay external debts, tourism is of a quite important role. Moreover, tourism provides many additional benefits in different sectors and sources of income, such as food, accommodation, industry and construction, etc. In this study, general goal is to show economic contributions of tourism to developing countries like Turkey by obtaining and analyzing tourism activities. Furthermore, countries such as Turkey, Greece and Spain have been taken into consideration as the examples in this study. As a result, the importance and role of tourism sector in the economy of countries are examined in light of data that are collected from given examples.

Keywords: Tourism, economy, exchange.

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2016.024.039

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