ECONOMIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE TOURISM MARKET IN THE PROVINCE OF ERBIL (DURING THE PERIOD 2007–2016)

Abstract

The purpose of the current study is to make the economic and structural analysis of the tourism market in the province of Erbil. In order to reach this purpose, the study sample was collected from the ministry of municipalities and tourism, general directorate of tourism and investment authority. For years 2007 to 2016. In the method the study's problem, through analyzing and examining secondary data that engrossed on the nature of the relationship and relative import between study variables is given. In addition, the study stretches to some results, most conspicuously the province of Erbil constitutes over fifty of the total tourism projects in the region, and the study concludes that the relative importance of the tourism sector to the other economic sectors constitutes good rate. The tourism sector comes in third place after the industrial sector and the Real Estates sector. Also, the proportion of tourism institutions in the province of Erbil to the tourist institutions in the region during the period rate (36.12%) that indicates the Erbil is a center for tourist and archaeological sites in the region. Consequently, the study found that a high rate of their annual revenues of hotels, motels and tourist villages, the percentage is between (1-200) million dinars (1000 dinars = 3 TL), while the remaining proportion of (2.802%) revenues more than 201 million dinars annually, and fast because most tourist institutions (hotels, motels and tourist villages) absorb customers more than the capacity of absorption, in addition to their prices jealousy constant. Finally, the study found that the percentage of specialists in the field of tourism during the same only (5.71%) and this percentage is very low, and is one of the obstacles to the development of tourism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.