EVALUATION OF ALAÇATI (İZMIR, TURKEY) DESTINATION IN ASPECT OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM INDICATORS
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2019
Yazarlar: Özge Bora, Füsun BAYKAL
Tourism, leisure and global change, Uluslararası, 2019, cilt 5, ss 177-188
Özet
Cesme is the destination that the service capacity of tourism has developed most in Izmir. As a district of Cesme, Alacati has become a rapidly growing destination in the last two decades. This popularization of Alacati, its natural and cultural riches, its proximity to Izmir and proximity to Cesme played the most important roles. However, the setting up of an excessive number of operators (hotel, pension, restaurant, shopping units) in this small settlement center, which took the first steps of touristic life cycle quickly, caused some problems, especially noise. The subject of this paper is; According to the WTO's sustainable tourism indicators, to examine Alacati’s current situation of tourism. Proceeding; according to Alacati tourism and sustainable tourism indicators, Alacati's level of adaptation has been defined as what should be done in order to develop Alacati tourism according to sustainable tourism indicators. Goal is to evaluate the emerging results from a critical point of view. In the study six local actors were interviewed within the scope of twelve questions with verbal interview technique. Interviewing, one of the most frequently used data collection methods in qualitative research; has made it easy to access profound knowledge for Alacati. Opinions were transferred to this work with descriptive comments. If we make a generalization according to the findings, it is also true that Alacati has some positive developments in terms of sustainable tourism indicators, but there are also risks that can lead to various problems in the future.