VERSTÄNDNIS UND ERWARTUNGEN VON DER ÖKOTOURISMUS IN DER TÜRKISCHEN HUMANE
TÜRK İNSANINDA EKOTURİZM ANLAYIŞI VE BEKLENTİLER

Author : Yunus Emre GENÇ -- Musa GENÇ
Number of pages : 459-477

Abstract

Ecotourism is a dimension, which is related with the tourism, of the being intertwined of the people of our age with nature even for a short period of time and possibly their looking for spending time with the original local culture. The ecotourist, on the other hand, is a traveller, who has the principle of taking advantage of both genuine values, without harming them hardly ever. In addition, in order to be regarded as ecotourism of a tourist activity, it is essential that the majority of the tourism entities, that are formed, remain locally. Ecotourism is also a very important resource for the Turkish economy. However, 40 National Parks, 31 Nature Conservation Areas, 184 Nature Parks, 107 Natural Monuments, 80 Wildlife Improvement Areas, 58 Forests and 1273 Natural Places were invented by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs; 16 Special Environmental Protection Areas, 14 Ramsar Sites, 1 Biosphere Reserve, and 11 World Heritage Sites; it is still not possible to say that a total of 1815 natural protected areas were fully utilized. In this paper, we summarize the findings, which we obtained in the context of ecotourist profile, ecotourism understanding and expectations in Turkey in our survey study we conducted in the social media platforms with the participation of mainly 509 university graduates and students of 27 provinces of Turkey.

Keywords

Turkey's Ecotourism Wealth, Turkish People, Ecotourism Consciousness

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