Safranbolu is among the many other tourism destinations of Turkey practicing
sustainable and cultural tourism. Like many tourism centers in Turkey, it had been
negatively influenced from economic fluctuations of the 1980s period. However, in spite
of other tourism centers, it has not much changed and it has been well protected. The
reasons for this protection can be explained that Safranbolu entered the World Heritage
List in 1994, and so environmental and sustainable planning approaches are adapted to
development of town. While protecting its natural and cultural resources, the town is
planned and managed. As a result, it is announced as one of the well protected cities of
the world.
This thesis discusses development of Safranbolu within these sustainable tourismplanning
approaches. It aims to explain how the town has been changed after being a
tourism destination and to search positive and negative impacts of tourism. The thesis
has four objectives / to describe tourism and tourism planning issues, to explain the
evolution of tourism in Safranbolu, to search negative and positive impacts of tourism
and finally to provide new recommendations on development of Safranbolu. In this
respect, it explores the relations between tourism and planning, investigates cultural and
spatial reflections of global tourism in the town. To determine these effects, a survey has
been carried out during the summer of 2008. According to this, a sustainable and
environmental tourism planning method is suggested for the town.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612990/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 November 2011 |
| Creators | Akpinar Kasap, Sibel |
| Contributors | Berkman, Gulden |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | Access forbidden for 1 year |
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