Overview
- Is the first to map the potential for and the sustainability of alternative tourism in Turkey
- Critically examines the sustainability of alternative tourism forms and practices
- Highlights the challenges of rapid mass tourism development
- Makes recommendations for efficient public policy and better marketing strategies
- Combines views from Geography, Management, Marketing, Sociology, Tourism and Hospitality
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 121)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing Alternative Tourism
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Assessing Alternative Tourism
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About this book
This book takes inventory of and evaluates the available resources for the development of alternative tourism in Turkey. It examines the role of alternative tourism in future tourism development plans and proposes public policies necessary to assure sustainability. Although tourism started later in Turkey than in the Western Mediterranean countries it has grown very rapidly during the last three decades and today the country ranks among the top ten countries in the world in terms of both arrivals and receipts. However, most of the tourism development has been in the mass tourism sector or the so-called sun-sea-sand tourism. While crucial for the economic development of Turkey, mass tourism, in the absence of proper planning, has happened in a haphazard manner leading to numerous environmental and socio-cultural problems. This book argues that, in order to mitigate these problems, Turkey should encourage the development of alternative forms of tourism.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Istvan Egresi (Ph.D. University of Oklahoma) is a faculty at Fatih University in Istanbul where he teaches a number of geography courses, including Tourism Geographies. His research interests are in the area of alternative tourism, financial geographies and housing and his work has been published in journal such as Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, Eurasian of Geography and Economics and Human Geographies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alternative Tourism in Turkey
Book Subtitle: Role, Potential Development and Sustainability
Editors: Istvan Egresi
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47537-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47535-6Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83762-8Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47537-0Published: 08 December 2016
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Tourism Management, Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional and Cultural Studies