AN ANSWER TO CHANGİNG TOURİSM TRENDS: RURAL TOURİSM AND TURKEY'S PRACTİCES
DEĞİŞEN TURİSTİK EĞİLİMLERE BİR CEVAP: KIRSAL TURİZM VE TÜRKİYE UYGULAMALARI

Author : Utku ONGUN
Number of pages : 131-143

Abstract

When ıt is said rural tourism, ıt is generally considered in Turkey tourism activities carried out by farm owners in rural areas and activities like picnic had at the weekends. However, with change in tourist tendency in recent years, changes in the perception of rural tourism are striking. People who want to get rid of the intensive tempo of cities are trying to spend even a short vacation opportunity in rural areas. Both increase in people’s respect for the natüre and reasons for them to prefer ecological products have increased by an extra ordinary amount in rural tourism. When considering Turkey in terms of geographical characteristics, it is seen that rural tourism potential is high. The aim of this study is to provide examples of rural tourism activities in different geographical regions of Turkey, thus ensuring that rural tourism contributes to the local community. Besides, development stages of Turkey over time on rural tourism applications and socio-cultural characteristics of rural tourism participant mass are mentioned about. In accordance with this purpose, literatüre searches have been made using secondary data and this study is composed of three parts. In first part of the study, rural tourism concept and its contributions (environmental, economic and socio-cultural) have been mentioned about. In second part, applications of rural tourism in Turkey have been given for example by taking into consideration its development stages overtime. In the last part, suggestions are presented to enable Turkey to benefit from rural tourism more effectively.

Keywords

Rural Tourism, Contributions of Rural Tourism, Rural Tourism in Turkey.

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