Effects of COVID-19 and Recovery Process in the Turkish Tourism Industry

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2023

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Tourism Management
The aim of Atılım University Department of Tourism Management is to train tourism managers who are able to compete at an international level by offering quality education opportunities. Graduates employed as managers in the fields of accommodation, travel, catering, gastronomy, transportation, congress, conference organization begin their professional life while they are still interns. The academic staff consists of faculty members who are experts in their field, as well as sector professionals. With five years of education including the preparatory English courses offered, the courses of the department are in English. The course program consists of applied and theoretical courses devised with respect to the global trends in tourism. Students perform their internship studies at hotel chains, A-Class travel agencies and professional tourism companies. Our Department is in contract with universities abroad within the scope of the Erasmus student Exchange program. With its quality of education documented by TURAK (Tourism Education, Evaluation and Accreditation Board), Atılım university Department of Tourism Management is the first undergraduate program in Turkey to hold the accreditation.

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COVID-19 pandemic as the health crisis created an economic and social crisis in a great magnitude for the most countries. The current study analyses the emergent and growth of the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey and reviews the impact of this pandemic on the Turkish economy and society. This face-to-face interview based chapter finds that actions that are been taken by Turkish government during the crisis. Effects of this pandemic on the tourism sector is huge as Turkey is one of the leaders among international tourist destinations. So, consequences of this pandemic on the Turkish tourism sector and, managerial practices are explored in this study. Also, for attaining deeper insight of the impact of the pandemic, locals in the touristic city Antalya are interviewed. Strategies and practices that lead Turkey to handle the crisis successfully and maintain its resilience during this period were examined and highlighted. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.

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COVID-19, Effects, Recovery, Tourism, Turkey

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Tourism and Hospitality in Asia: Crisis, Resilience and Recovery

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235

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5763-5_15
 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/4125

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