3. Conclusion
Tourism, a service sector, has shown a very development throughout the the world.
Today, tourism sector accounts for the 30% of total world services trade on its own. Net
contribution of tourism to the economies of countries cannot be calculated precisely in
that tourism is a coalescence of sectors, that is, it embodies a number of large and small
service sectors. Nevertheless, theoretical and empirical studies on this subject, in both
national and international literature, have revealed that tourism has a positive effect on
employment.
This study made for the determination of the causality relationship between tourism and
employment covers the period between 1980&2007. Annual time series data are examinet
using Engle_Granger causality test, Johansen co-integration approach and error
correction modeling.The empirical findings obtained have shown that tourism has had a
positive effect on employment, and the cointegration test has proved that there is a mutual
relationship between the two variables in the long term.