A STUDY ON TOURISM MINISTERS

After the Law for Tourism Encouragement it is observed development in tourism of Turkey. In addition to tendency the international markets, - can be said that this developmant is also affected by the policies on Turkey's tourism. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is authorized as the supreme policy-makers institution of Turkey's tourism In this context, this study, aims to reveal the tourism ministers' education, foreign language skills, work areas and developments on tourism field during periods who is the authorized of this institution,from the Law on Encouragement of Tourism until July 2014, In this study were examined, 21 different ministers's CVs,the number of tourists in their terms,tourism revenues and the laws and regulations adopted in their terms within a perioad of 32 year. As a result, tourism ministers have received training and have worked in differentfrom tourism areas and if ministers to remain in office for a long time, it affects positively to work in the tourism area.