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Constant changes in the demands and expectations of tourists make the  tourism market structure changing and uncertain. Innovation, which is seen as a way to cope with this change and uncertainty, is perceived as the main source of competitive advantage and performance in the ever-changing tourism industry. In this context, accommodation enterprises try to differentiate themselves in order to survive and gain competitive advantage. This is only possible by implementing innovative activities. In this research, it is aimed to reveal the effect of innovation management practices of accommodation enterprises in Alanya on the benefit of innovation management. In the content of the research, the data were obtained by survey from 100 hotels with convenience sampling method. According to the findings obtained, accommodation enterprises implement service innovation. Decisions regarding innovation practices are taken by the owners and general managers. The competitive advantage of accommodation enterprises is determined by the quality of the service they offer. However, although the research and development department (R&D) forms the basis of innovation practices, it has been determined that most of the accommodation enterprises participating in the research do not have such a department. Finally, behavior-based evaluation has the highest impact on the benefit of innovation practices.

Infant mortality is defined as the death of babies born in one year due to various reasons before they reach their first birthday. Factors such as social, economic, hereditary and disease cause infants to lose their lives. In this study, investigations were made about the social and economic factors that cause infant deaths in Turkey. By taking annual data between 1990-2021 in Turkey, the relationship between infant mortality and life expectancy, birth rate, primary school attendance rate of women, number of doctors and hospitals, annual income per capita and number of refugees coming to the country was analyzed. With Augmented Dickey Fuller Unit Root Test, the data of the variables used in the study were first removed from the unit root and made stationary, and Granger Causality Test was applied with VAR Analysis. In addition to examining the causality between the variables in the study, it was concluded that the technological developments such as the development of machinery and devices in the field of medicine in recent years have also minimized infant mortality. In the study, apart from examining the causality between the variables, it was concluded that infant deaths were minimized since technological developments such as the development of machinery and devices in the field of medicine in recent years will increase the efficiency in the health sector.

The adoption of cryptocurrencies by investor economic units in a short time affects the capital markets, especially the stock exchanges, which are seen as an alternative to the crypto money market. This situation has revealed the necessity of questioning the relationship between securities exchanges and cryptocurrencies. In this context, our study was carried out to investigate the causality relationship between Bitcoin, which is known as the most well-known crypto money, which is characterized as an alternative to national currencies, and another important cryptocurrency Ethereum and BIST 100 index. As a result of the study, in which the monthly data for the period between March 2018 and September 2022 were analyzed with the Toda-Yamamoto (1995) causality test, a one-sided causality relationship was determined between Bitcoin and the BIST 100 index. Based on the findings indicating that the direction of this causality relationship is from Bitcoin to the BIST 100 index, it can be said that Bitcoin has an effect on the Turkish stock market. In the study, no causal relationship was found between Ethereum and BIST 100 index. At this point, it can be said that investors trading in Borsa Istanbul should take into account the changes in Bitcoin prices while managing their portfolios.