Tourism Growth, National Development and Regional Inequality in Turkey
By Cevat Tosun, D. Timothy, Yüksel Öztürk. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2003
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The introduction of international tourism as an economic growth strategy in Turkey is relatively recent, and Turkey has experienced rapid tourism growth in terms of volume and value. Despite the significant progress in these respects, tourism has contributed little to development. Instead, it has increased the rate of economic growth at the expense of equality among regions and classes. This paper examines the impacts of intensive coastal tourism growth on the development of rural regions in particular and national development in general. It concludes that spatial concentrations of mass tourism investment induced by tourism incentive policies in relatively developed coastal regions have increased disparities among regions and classes.
Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation
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- Tourism Restructuring and the Politics of Sustainability: A Critical View From the European Periphery (The Canary Islands) (2004, background): “However, this growth has often come at the price of economic dependency (Boissevain, 1977), heightened class and regional inequalities (Tosun et al., 2003), environmental degradation, particularly in coastal and marine areas (Grenon & Batisse, 1989; WWF International, 2001), and radical changes to r”
- The impact of tourism on income inequality in developing economies: Does Kuznets curve hypothesis exist? (2016, unknown): “Tosun et al. (2003) investigate the relationship between tourism and income inequality.”
- Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for Turkey? (2005, background): “Turkey merits attention as the importance of tourism to Turkish economy is very well recognized (Tosun, 1999, 2001; Tosun et al. 2003; Tatoglu et al. 2002).”