LUXURY TOURISM IN TURKEY

Tourism is becoming increasingly important as a source of revenue for many countries. Tourism sector is also increasingly important for the Turkish economy. There is always tendency to have more and more tourists in their own countries but now these ideas are changing and nowadays the trend is to have not more tourists but more income from each of them. Some countries expanded considerably in recent years after being declared a top tourism economic priority and these countries have prepared plans for attracting luxury customers to offer them high-priced products and to give a high quality service. This concept is called luxury tourism as a tourism type. This paper describes the term "luxury tourism" and gives the variety of its examples in the world and in Turkey.