International Conference on Eurasian Economies
4-5 November 2010 – Istanbul, TURKEY
Paper detail
Paper ID : 216
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Sectoral Analyses
Presenter: Asst. Prof. Dr. Didar Sarı Çallı
Session : 5B İşletme ve Turizm
The Tourism Sector at Creating Employment and the Effects of 2008 Global Crisis on Turkey's Tourism Employment
Turizm Sektörünün İstihdam Yaratmadaki Yeri ve 2009 Krizinin Türkiye Turizm İstihdamına Etkileri
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Didar Sarı Çallı (Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Türkiye)
- Ph.D. candidate Zefure Uçar (Sakarya University, Türkiye)
Abstract
Tourism is one of the largest sectors in the world, providing over 235 million employment oppurtunities in global platform and having 9,2% of GDP (WTTC, 2010:a). The seasonal nature of tourism industry, rapid changes in working conditions, formal lacks in work contracts of many small businesses etc. are the complicating factors at providing stable employees in the sector (Eurostat et al., 2008:50). Despite these difficulties, in the tourism sector, -which’s making positive effects with its labour intensive nature and multiplier effects in various industries-, new job opportunuties influencing positively to the region’s and countries’ economic structure and even the overall economic structure. According to the barometer published by UNWTO, 2009 Global Economic Crisis effected tourism industry globally negatively with 4,2% decline at the number of incoming tourists and tourism revenues from $942 million to $852 million* at 2009 (UNWTO, 2010:a). On the data of Turkey, 3,2% decline at tourism revenues despite 2% growth at the number of incoming tourists is attracting attention(UNWTO, 2010:b). By 2008, the direct employment that created Travel&Tourism Industry in Turkey is occured as 436.6 thousands while it’s estimated that it’ll rise to 443.1 thousands in 2009 and to 447.5 thousands in 2010 (WTTC, 2010:b). In this paper, creating employment of tourism sector and the importance of it is emphasized while it’s aiming to analyse the effects of 2009 Global Economic Crisis to Turkey’s Tourism Employment via secondary data.
JEL codes: J21, G01
Sarı Çallı, Didar, Uçar, Zefure (2010). "The Tourism Sector at Creating Employment and the Effects of 2008 Global Crisis on Turkey's Tourism Employment" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2010, pp.338-343, Istanbul, TURKEY.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C01.00216
