Black Sea Journal of Engineering and Science

Yazarlar: Hamdi ZENGİNBAL, Nail HOŞCAN

Konular:Mühendislik

DOI:10.34248/bsengineering.788673

Anahtar Kelimeler:Mudurnu,Ethnobotanic,Sustainable Tourism

Özet: Ethnobotany is the study of plants used, conserved and managed by the local people. It deals with local people knowledge of a particular use of plants in gastronomical, medical, religious, and other purposes. Ethnobotany is a rapidly growing scientific topic and it is predominantly linked to economic botany: on the one hand to determine the potential economic value of various plants and, on the other, to make a link with a relatively new aspect of sustainable tourism market. The culture and heritage of destinations are significant pull-factors in attracting domestic and international tourists. Sustainable tourism phenomenon today and in the near future is in the direction of the assumption that the relevant destination contains gastronomic culture. In recent years, different studies have been conducted in terms of collecting as much information as possible about the relationship between traditional use of edible plant species with gastronomic offer and the increase of sustainable tourism development. The traditional food and local plant resources of a particular interest for sustainable tourism activities in Mudurnu were investigated in this paper. Mudurnu was preferred for this study because of its rich natural, historical and cultural resources which contain as main parts of ecotourism supply. To reach the objective of this study, some interviews were utilized on a key important people and local people living in villages. In this study, special attention was paid to the use of traditional ethnobotany knowledge in local gastronomy and its effect to sustainable tourism development.

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