Abstract—As the economies of other countries in the Mediterranean Basin, the tourism sector in our country has a high denominator in economics. Tourism businesses, which are building blocks of tourism, sector faces with a variety of problems during their activities. These problems faced make business efficiency and competition conditions of the businesses difficult. Most of the problems faced by the tourism businesses and the information of consumers about consumers’ rights were used in this study, which is conducted to determine the problems of tourism businesses in the Central Anatolia Region. It is aimed to contribute the awareness of staff and executives working at tourism sector and to attract attention of businesses active concurrently with tourism sector and legislators. Keywords—Financial Problems, The problems of Tourism businesses, Tourism Businesses, Tourism Sector in Turkey. I. INTRODUCTION INCE the second half of the 20th century, tourism has become of the fastest developing and expanding sectors in the world economy. Tourism, as many other industries, is often used as a tool for local and national development. Tourism has taken its place as an important factor to form a widespread income, job and tax revenues, as moderating the balance of payments and contributing to local developments. In today’s world, the tourism sector, one of the key sectors of our country’s economy, makes its presence felt. There are some studies that aim to achieve a world standard in the tourism sector and increase the service quality. With the diversity in the tourism demand worldwide and the existence of tourism demand dependent on sea, sand, sun, trio, people in tourism activities do not contented with this trio. The Turkish tourism businesses and authorities who are aware of the situation try to build appropriate facilities and preparing a legal infrastructure. The businesses whose aim is only benefit and lack of qualified staff, which is a problem that is not cleared up, yet in Turkey and the studies made to protect foreign and domestic tourists are not enough. Tourists have no idea about how to solve the problems they face. However, high prices applied to domestic tourists devitalize them. Having unqualified top executives and not meeting the Prof. Dr. Raif Parlakkaya is a Lecturer in Department of Business Adminastration, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey (e-mail: rpkaya@hotmail.com). Asst. Prof. Dr. Huseyin Cetin and Asst. Prof. Dr. Halil Akmese are Lecturers in Department of Tourism Management, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey (e-mail: cetin.hsyn@hotmail.com, halilakmese@gmail.com). Mesut Murat Adabali is a Post Gradute Student in Department of Tourism Management, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey (e-mail: mesut.murad@gmail.com). demands of today’s tourism disappoints the foreign tourists. This situation is distressful for the country advertising and image; also inadequate advertising of the country and wrong and weak usage of marketing are other problems tourism sector encounter. As well as not advertising the nature, destroying the natural beauties and building tall buildings on destroyed green areas also a problem encountered. At the same time, during the establishment of these facilities, the infrastructure of the environment the facility built on and not having a proper construction plan became an important factor. Consultation meetings were held to solve the indicated problems and solutions suggested for the current problems of tourism sector in our country. Academics and government executives attended these meetings and with their solution suggestions, improvements were made. In this study consisting of four sections, the subjects the legal, environmental and political problems and the main problem of facilities, employment, are discussed. The study was done using a questionnaire, which aims to find out the general problems of 25 tourism businesses in Central Anatolia region, and finished with a conclusion that has the evaluation. II. TOURISM IN TURKEY Turkey has become the sixth most visited country in the world after Italy with totally 31.5 million international visitors in 2011. Turkey’s total revenue from international visitors was more than USD 28 billion in 2011. Business Monitor International forecasts revenues to exceed USD 35 billion by 2017. Oxford Economics outlook for the global economy is more optimistic for the coming years. As the global economy recovers, travel and tourism will increase. Improvements in the economies of European nations, for whom Turkey is a popular destination, will aid the growth of the travel and tourism industry. Business Monitor International indicates that Turkey, as an emerging market, will benefit greatly from the global economic recovery. The contribution of the travel and tourism industry to Turkey’s GDP has a higher growth forecast compared to that of Europe. From 2013 to 2023, average growth is expected to remain around 3% for Turkey. Meanwhile in Europe, average growth from 2013 to 2023 is projected as approximately 2%. After 2010, the travel and tourism industry recovered strongly with a 19.5% rate of growth in 2011, significantly greater than the growth rate of the Turkish economy in that respective period. The reason for this fluctuation was domestic demand; capital investments and indirect revenues had decreased significantly in 2010 compared to 2009. However, the Turkish economy recovered in 2011 and the percentage of growth returned to higher levels. Financial Problems Met in the Tourism Sector in Turkey: A Survey on the Tourism Businesses Raif Parlakkaya, Huseyin Cetin, Halil Akmese, Mesut Murat Adabali S World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering Vol:9, No:3, 2015 820 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 9(3) 2015 scholar.waset.org/1999.10/10000774 International Science Index, Economics and Management Engineering Vol:9, No:3, 2015 waset.org/Publication/10000774