Empirical analysis of the causality relationship of BIST tourism index with dollar exchange rate, dollar index and oil prices

The aim of this study is to reveal the causal relationship between the BIST (？stanbul Stock Exchange) Tourism Index and the dollar rate, dollar index and oil prices. For this purpose, causality analyzes were made by using the daily data of 01 January 2003 - 24 July 2018 period. Therefore, a total of 4060 observations for each variable were analyzed. In order to determine the causality relationship between these variables, in addition to the traditional Granger (1969) causality analysis, the asymmetrical causality analysis, which allows to reveal the asymmetrical causality relationship, was used. The findings of the study indicate that there is a significant Granger causality and asymmetric causality relation between variables that included in the analysis