Financial Performance Analysis of BIST Tourism Companies with TOPSIS for 2011-2015 Period

The main aim of this paper is to investigate of financial performance of 13 tourism firms quoted on BIST with TOPSIS method by exploitation of financial ratios for the 2011-2015 period. Basically, to determine financial power of the tourism firms financial ratios have measured and then general corporate performance scores estimated by TOPSIS method. Algorithm of the TOPSIS method is repeated and ranking orders of firms are calculated for each year. However, companies’ yearly performances are outlined and an average ranking is stated for 6 years. Lastly, tourism corporations have ranked with these scores. The result of this paper shows that financial performance of tourism companies point instability out during the all period. According to the results of analysis Net Turizm, Tekart Turizm, and Marmaris Altinyunus have the best performance in 2011 respectively, but Metemtur has the worst. On the other hand, surprisingly, Metemtur has the best financial efficiency and Mart？ Otel has the worst performance in 2015. However, Net Turizm and Marmaris Altinyunus have been continuing their financial stability and Metemtur is very volatile company in given term