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Research Article

The Impacts of Country Risk, Global Economic Policy Uncertainty, and Macroeconomic Factors on the Turkish Tourism Industry

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Pages 1242-1265 | Received 29 Sep 2020, Accepted 11 Mar 2021, Published online: 31 May 2021

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