Comparison of the Pre-Pandemi Performances of the Leading Countries in Tourism with Entropy and Waspas Methods

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The aim of this paper is twofold. The first aim is to deal with the impact of COVID-19 crisis on the tourism sector and its reflections to the economy. The other aim is to create an index covering 10 world leading countries in tourism and to make a performance ranking for the year 2019, which was the last normal tourism year before the COVID-19 crisis. This study covers 10 countries among the top 15 world leading countries in tourism, where the relevant dataset can be accessed. “Entropy” and “Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS)” methods are used in the creation of this ranking. According to the ranking determined by Entropy and WASPAS methods, the performance ranking of countries is respectively; the US, Thailand, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and Austria. This paper shows the huge impact of COVID-19 on the tourism sector due to travel restrictions and border closures and the effects of the crisis are far bigger than the previous crises. Future studies will show how the performance ranking of tourism leading countries will change after the COVID-19 crisis.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• COVID-19
• Entropy
• MCDM
• Tourism
• WASPAS

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