Potential of Tourısm in Regıonal Integratıon of Azerbaıjan in Competıtıveness Background

Competitiveness is considered to be the main factor for achieving the success in market economy. Because, the main goal of any commercial organization is to expand its business in market, to make it robust and in worst case to stay in a stable condition without growth. In order to achieve this goal, profit maximizing with high level of sales must be set as the main target and competitiveness is required here. Competitiveness is always in a fashion and of use by developing and developed countries. Developing countries need it to get a market share and developed countries need competitiveness as a new source of growth. Nowadays in line with the globalization, tourism has became as one of the key sphere of development of many countries and recognized as one of the main sources of jobs, wealth, welfare and income. Understanding and measurement of competitiveness in tourism is a major consideration and bearing this in mind this paper has been prepared in order to give an overview of tourism in Azerbaijan, its potential and role in regional integration in the background of some indicators for measuring competitiveness in tourism by OECD. See above See above