Sixth, the Turkish tourism experience reveals that the
form and scale of tourism development that has taken
place in developing countries is shaped by international
tour operators. Intense competition between identical
tourist destinations in terms of price, rather than product
di!erentiation and quality, and increasing the supply of
almost identical commodity tourist destinations increase
the dependency of destination countries on the international
tour operators. This high level of market dependency
puts the developing world in a position of
a decision-taker, rather than decision-maker. In other
words, because of the nature of tourism and its reliance
on the international market it was a sector over which
the host community and governments could exercise
only limited control.