Uluslararası Global Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Hanife GÜNDÜZ

Konular:Otelcilik, Konaklama, Spor ve Turizm

Anahtar Kelimeler:Sustainable Tourism,Golf Tourism,Belek Region

Özet: Tourism activities affect the environment directly or indirectly.In the first years of tourism people tried to get high benefits regardless the enviromental problems ore usage of natural recources. However; over the years, increase in pollution originating from tourism, unrestrained structuring and substructure problems had a harmful effect on the environment and resources. In order to minimize and prevent environmental problems, the concept of sustinable tourism came forth. Sustainable tourism means; passing on today’s tourism activities to next generation. Golf tourism affects the environment while being fed by it. The effect of golf tourism to the sustainable development can be interpreted differently by several communities. Golf tourism establishments argue that golf tourism is more sustainable than other types of tourism while environmentalists oppose this. One of the most important stakeholder of this discussion is also the local population. The attitude and behavior of the local people will provide sustainability in the long run. For this reason it is aimed to reveal the perception of local people about golf tourism in our work. Therefore Belek region of Antalya, the most important golf destination of our country, was selected and a questionnare was applied to the local people in the region. With this questionnaire, it is aimed to measure local people’s perception of golf tourism. Reliability Analysis, Factor Analysis, Correlation Analysis, t test and Analysis of Variance were used in interpreting the questionnaire data

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