Türk Bilimsel Derlemeler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Tülay Üzümcü, Aysun Çelik, Mehmet Karataş

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Sustainable rural tourism,Sille village,Using-preserving,Dilemma

Özet: It is important to utilize and preserve the natural and cultural values of the rural areas in rural tourism with an understandingof sustainability. Rural areas are being offered to tourism for the purpose of rural development. In contrast to the intention ofoffering these areas to tourism with a sustainable understanding, rural areas that have been offered to tourism are moving awayfrom their natural appearance and cultural structure and becoming more commercialized. Herein, a dilemma arises with thequestion whether rural areas should be used for touristic purposes or not. Within this context, the study focuses on Sille villagesample in Selçuklu district of Konya province. Tourism potential of the village and the changes in the village after being offeredto tourism have been mainly focused on. In the study, firstly the related literature was searched and the tourism values of therural areas and Sille village were specified. The reason of the tourism development occurred in the village and the potential wereresearched. Sustainable rural tourism applications were addressed and this sustainable rural tourism issue was discussed underusing-preserving dilemma. Different from the other studies conducted on rural tourism, this study approaches the tourism andrural tourism issues from a critical perspective under using-preserving dilemma and examines how tourism in general can beachieved by preserving the natural and socio-cultural environment.

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