1. Factors Affecting International Tourism Demand For Türkiye: Gravity Model-Fuzzy Regression.
- Author
-
Ayan, Tuba Yakıcı and Değirmenci, Nurdan
- Subjects
- *
INTERNATIONAL tourism , *GRAVITY model (Social sciences) , *FOREIGN exchange rates , *FUZZY logic , *GRAVITY - Abstract
In this study, it is aimed to analyze the factors that may stimulate international tourism demand for Turkey. In empirical analyses, the fuzzy logic approach to gravity model with data from 83 countries that sent tourists to Turkey in 2019 are used. GDP per capita (GDPpp), population (POP), distance (DIST), inflation (INF), exchange rate (EXCR), tourism expenditure (EXPD) and tourist departure (DEP) variables are used in the analysis. As a result of the study, only population, distance, expenditure and departure variables were found to be significant and only population variable was found to be fuzzy. According to this finding, the effect of the population variable on the number of tourists appears to be positive in all cases. However, the unit effect of change in population is not clear-cut and can be expressed by values varying within a range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024