Turizm Sektörünün Türkiye Ekonomisi için Değerlendirilmesi: Girdi – Çıktı Analizi

Abstract

Tourism sector is one of the important sectors for the countries in terms of increasing employment opportunities, providing income for the economy and raising the foreign currency earnings. Employing 2002 and 2012 input-output tables, the aim of this study is to assess tourism sector of Turkey with the input-output model. According to the results obtained, sectors related to tourism are slightly above the average among all other sectors in terms of employment multipliers, output multipliers and forward - backward linkage effects. The multipliers and linkage effects of these sectors have generally increased in the year of 2012 compared to 2002. Based on Hirschman categories, although the importance of sectors related to tourism generally increased compared to the year of 2002, these sectors are not in the “key sector” category. Consequently, policies increasing the linkages of the tourism sector with the overall economy should be implemented.