Pegem Akademi, Çanakkale, 2020
The structure of tourism basically may harm natural life and local culture. This
structure can clearly be seen especially in the rural areas that are included in
tourism process. Social, economic, cultural and ecological subjects are mainly
affected by the negative side of tourism. All of these components need to be
evaluated in a planning approach. However, local administrators generally cannot
manage this process because of lack of financial resources and qualitified
personnel and harm values that are resource of tourism. There is no doubt that
this process will exceed the carrying capacity and will cause problems in other
processes particularly in ecological one. Nowadays this situation can generaly be
seen in most of the areas in the world. Hence, tourism decision makers are
seriously questioning tourism and they state that this process should not be
continued. Because the current tourism philosophy stating that “tourism activities
have to be done whatever their costs” can reflect the spiritual situation of the area
that are expected to be open soon.
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