Economic Contribution Of Tourism

Döndü ?lkaya () and Ay?egül O?uz ()
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Döndü ?lkaya: SELÇUK UNIVERCITY (TURKEY)
Ay?egül O?uz: SELÇUK ÜN?VERS?TES? SOSYAL B?L?MLER MESLEK YÜKSEK OKULU

No 3105394, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Tourism as a sector has become an industry whose importance has been increasing world wide as an economic entity via globalization since World War I. Tourism sector plays a role in paying external debts, obtaining new job opportunities and developing the present jobs by leading to foreign exchange earnings at times countries experience financial problems. Tourism industry nearly accounts for 30% of global service sector.Additionally, tourism has a comprehensive structure including many sub-sectors. So, the aim of our study is to draw attention to economic contributions to the countries to be obtained viatourism and to analyze the sector in this context. As to sampling and data collection, such countries as Turkey, Spain, Greece and Italy from the Mediterraneanb as in where tourism has great contributions to the economies of these countries were used, as well as using secondary data in the study.

Keywords: Tourism; Economy; Foreign Exchange; Jobopportunities; Mediterraneancountries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2015-11
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 20th International Academic Conference, Madrid, Nov 2015, pages 182-182

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