Istanbul Gelisim University IISBF SosyoCom: Monthly Events and News Bulletin (Issue: 20, August 2022)

Abstract

In recent years, tourism has become one of the fields that have developed significantly all over the world. In addition to mass tourism, which includes the sea-sand-sun trilogy, the interest in alternative tourism types has allowed countries to present their values to the tourism supply. In the past, in addition to mass tourism, a few tourism types came to the fore such as culture and belief tourism, but at this point, many types of tourism are carried out from mountaineering to sports, from botany to permaculture. On the other hand, Turkiye is one of the countries where both mass tourism and alternative tourism types can be realized and which hosts tourists twelve months of the year with its resources. The most important result of this situation is the contribution of the income from tourism to the Gross National Product. When the contribution of tourism movements to Turkiye is evaluated on a yearly basis, it is seen that while the income obtained from the tourists visiting Turkiye at the beginning of the 1990s was 3.2 billion dollars, this situation has been increasing on a yearly basis. In 2020, this situation decreased to 1.8 billion dollars due to the reasons such as borders closed due to the pandemic and travel barriers. In 2021, it closed the year with 24.5 billion dollars with the relative decrease of the pandemic, the opening of the borders and the liberalization of international circulation with the development of a vaccine against the disease. It is predicted that tourism will provide significant income to Turkiye for the year 2022, when the pandemic is over, and that the income from tourism will increase considerably, especially as a result of international arrivals. Because, while in 2019 Turkiye was ranked 6th in the world ranking in the category of countries preferred by tourists as a destination, in 2021 Turkiye had risen to the 4th place in the list of countries that receive the most tourists in the world. Therefore, 2022 tourism expectations are quite high compared to previous years. 2022 data has not been announced yet, but it is curious whether tourism revenues will be at the desired level.