THE EFFECTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TERROR ON TOURISM INDUSTRY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACK: THE CASE OF TURKEY

Tourism, which has internationally significant and also economic, commercial, cultural, political dimensions, has become a soft and smart power source whose economic and political value is increasing especially for today's international actors. By the other hand Terrorism which is a source of common concern for the international community, has negative effects on the tourism industry and its actors more over the time. Tourism is involving people's travels that an economic, political, cultural and social phenomenon. Although tourism is sophisticated because of its nature, it has a flexible structure. Thus, socio-economic or political changes also affects tourism activities quickly and directly. The aim of the study is to examine the correlation between the terrorist attacks and tourism industry through the case of September 11 attack. In this study, it is argued that tourism which has already a fragile nature is negative affected by terrorism. To reach the stated aim, focused on the effects of The September 11 attack which considered one of the important terrorist attack in history on international dimension and Turkey tourism industry. In this context, the results obtained are evaluated. The result is that there is a direct and proportional correlation between terrorism and tourism, and that they strongly affect each other.