CONTRIBUTION OF CULTURAL TOURISM ON TURKISH ECONOMY

The positive effects of Turkey’s tourism sector on the economy are increasing with each passing day. To increase tourism revenues that have a positive contribution on Turkey’s current account balance year by year, have a great importance. Therefore, the diversification of tourism types and expansion of deseasonalized cultural tourism applications are necessary. For such purposes within this work, cultural tourism has been introduced by mentioning about the place of the tourism in the economy. After that, it has been attempted to explain by using a field research what need to be done for Turkey in order to be effective in the sector.