The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism sector: In the context of Turkey

The Covid-19 pandemic first started its spread in the country of China and very quickly affected the whole world. Turkey is one of the affected countries. The tourism sector, which is one of Turkey's strongest sectors, has been affected by this global pandemic in different ways. Firstly, the study provides general information regarding travel platforms and tourism sector revenues. After that, in the context of the years 2012-2024 in Turkey, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are examined with two separate econometric analyses. In the first analysis, the relationship between tourism sector revenues and economic growth in Turkey regarding the period 2012Q1-2024Q3 is examined with the ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag) Model. As a result of this analysis, it was concluded that there was a cointegration relationship between the variables and that tourism sector revenues had a positive effect on economic growth, in both long and short term. In the second analysis, the EKK Estimation Method was used to test the prediction of "The Covid-19 Pandemic has affected Turkey's tourism sector revenues". As a result of the prediction, it was concluded that "The Covid-19 pandemic has indeed affected Turkey's tourism sector revenues".