Journal of Yaşar University

Yazarlar: Ceylan ALKAN

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DOI:10.19168/jyu.36395

Anahtar Kelimeler:Sustainable Tourism,Destination,Semi-Structured Interwiev Technique,Alaçatı

Özet: Natural beauties and socio-cultural resources of countries are the main factors for attracting tourists to these tourist destinations. Any destruction on these resources may cause irreversible damages on tourism industry. Sustainability concept in tourism is very important and irreversible damages on touristic and natural resources may be avoidable by taking some precautions. Main objective of this study is to examine and disccuss the sustainability of tourism attraction of Alaçatı, İzmir. The study was conducted by using interviewing technique of qualitative data collection tools. In the study, a total of 15 people including non-governmental organizations, local authorities, and private business managers of tourism sector were interviewed. The study has shown that for sustainable advancement of tourism resources of Alaçatı, collaboration and continuous efforts of these three sectors: goverment, non-government asssociations and, private companies are necessary for debating coming issues, generating new ideas and solving any problems before it has become an unrecoverable scale

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