First, like many other developing countries, Turkey
has chronic and severe macro economic problems such
as a high rates of unemployment, rapid growth of the
working-age population, high rate of in#ation and interest,
an increasing rate of de"cits in the current account of
balance of payments and an increasing debt: service ratio.
In the short term many developing countries do not have
alternatives to tourism to "nd sources of foreign currency
earnings and to create jobs for the rapidly growing working-
age population