Financial Problems Met in the Tourism Sector in Turkey: A Survey on the Tourism Businesses

As the economies of other countries in the
Mediterranean Basin, the tourism sector in our country has a high
denominator in economics. Tourism businesses, which are building
blocks of tourism, sector faces with a variety of problems during their
activities. These problems faced make business efficiency and
competition conditions of the businesses difficult. Most of the
problems faced by the tourism businesses and the information of
consumers about consumers’ rights were used in this study, which is
conducted to determine the problems of tourism businesses in the
Central Anatolia Region. It is aimed to contribute the awareness of
staff and executives working at tourism sector and to attract attention
of businesses active concurrently with tourism sector and legislators.

• Raif Parlakkaya
• Huseyin Cetin
• Halil Akmese
• Mesut Murat Adabali

• Financial Problems
• The problems of Tourism businesses
• Tourism Businesses
• Tourism Sector in Turkey.

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