Impact of Low Cost Carriers on Turkish Tourism Industry

Low cost carriers (LCC’s) are one the fastest growing and becoming important part of the airline industry since they start operations 1970’s. Tourism one of the major industries in the World is linking closely air transportation. Tourism industry is extremely important for developing countries like Turkey. After deregulation 1978’s in USA, liberalization of airline industry started in the World. 1983 first package of deregulation give right to start private enterprises in Turkey and then 2002 second part is give airlines operate without any limitation. After all some Turkish airlines choose LCC’s business model, some of them change business model charter to LCC. Turkey one of the major tourist destination in the World and tourism industry plays important role in the country economy. Tourism and airline industries linking each other, growth simultaneously. LCC’s give service more than 20 million of passenger and billions USD revenue for Turkish national economy.