Evaluation of Covid-19 Outbreak by Yacht Tourism Operators: Example of Marmaris

Abstract

China's Wuhan city, and the resulting emitted by the World Health Organization to the entire world Covidien-19 (New Type coronavirus) is mentioned by name in Turkey as well as all over the world epidemic has adversely affected the tourism movement. The fact that human movements came to a halt due to the Covid-19 outbreak affected the tourism industry and therefore other businesses operating in tourism. The research objective of Turkey's most important tourism destination which lies operating in Marmaris tourism business of Covidien-19 how they are affected by the epidemic, and how they continue the process of dealing with the outbreak and to identify their predictions about the epidemic for the future and develop proposals on these findings light. In the research, using qualitative research methods, the information obtained by interviewing yacht tourism operators was evaluated. According to the results of the research, yacht operators stated that they were economically and psychologically affected by the covid-19 epidemic like all other industrial enterprises, their future hopes were uncertain due to the cut of their income sources, they were forced due to the continuation of fixed expense payments, and more support is needed to survive.