Community based ecotourism for sustainable development in eastern Black Sea Region : an evaluation through local communities’ tourism perception

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Tourism is a growing sector in many national economies. Turkey is also one of these countries which aim to increase its national share in international tourist arrivals and tourism receipts. For this reason, Turkish Republic Ministry of Culture and Tourism has published its’ Turkey Tourism 2023 Strategy Action Plan 2007-2013 to identify strategies and support various tourism development schemes in the whole country in order to increase the contribution of tourism receipts to the economy. Eastern Black Sea Region is one of the regions pointed out in Turkey Tourism 2023 Strategy Action Plan 2007-2013, in which tourism emphasized to be improved. The report expressed that nature based niche tourism strategies will be supported in Eastern Black Sea Region. This thesis aims to evaluate the level of outcomes of these policies together with sustainability of nature based niche tourism implementations in Eastern Black Sea Region through assessing local residents’ perception of tourism development. Additionally, it discusses whether current tourism development schemes in Eastern Black Sea Region supports community based ecotourism development which is recognized as one of the sustainable niche tourism alternatives for this region. Community based ecotourism, together with sustainable tourism development, are also explained to understand in which respect community based ecotourism coincides with sustainable tourism development principles.

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Sustainable development ., Ecotourism., Tourism.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12616371/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22990

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Kaplan, “ Community based ecotourism for sustainable development in eastern Black Sea Region : an evaluation through local communities’ tourism perception,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.