Tourism demand for Turkey fromselected countries:Panel data approach

Tourism have an important contribution on Turkey?s incomes. In this paper there is an effort to achieve modeling the abovementioned demand which will advise on action plans and direct the investments about the subject for the aim of adding to tourism incomes. In this paper the variables, considered effective on tourismdemand were taken up. Accordingly, it is tried to investigate for countries the gross domestic product for per capita as U.S. Dollars in current prices and advertisings in the relevant countries which was considered an important factor for tourism demand. It is tried to find alternative methods to represent the variables about advertising that is not able to be find. In this paper the first twenty countries which are the most effective and that explains the most part of tourism demand along the investigated period. In addition panel data regression analysis approach that has acquired popularity in last years, was applied in this paper