The impact of economic and social development in Safranbolu

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Kasap Akpınar, Sibel
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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.
Economic surveys, Social surveys, Economic surveys, Social surveys
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612990/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20730
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Kasap Akpınar, “The impact of economic and social development in Safranbolu,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2011.
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