Sürdürülebilir turizm planlaması ve Türkiye'de yat turizmine ekolojik yaklaşım
Özet
SUMMARY Over the world and in Turkey tourism activities are increasing rapidly. This phenomenon will go on in the future. As a result of this increase, it is obvious that the effect of tourism on cultural, natural and physical environment will continue. Expansion of tourism, its rapid and unplanned development by holiday facilities and hotels, discharge of drainage to the sea, not to collect and destroy garbage are resulting in pollution. Environment is a prime input for tourism in mutual relation of environment and tourism. Tourism and environment when taken into consideration from sustainable development point of view, mutual negative effects which could evolve, would be decreased to the minimum and also environmental values would be improved by sustainable tourism planning. Tourism, when considered on the basis of sustainable development, can become a means for maintaining the existing values of social, cultural, natural and physical environment and their improvement The goal in sustainable tourism is to obtain the social, ecological, economical, locational and cultural sustainability. Sustainable tourism is a development type in which the environment mat people are in relation with, is kept without spoiling and changing it and its cultural structure, biological variety and ecological values, and at the same time in which whole sources are managed so that they would meet the expectations of future generations. In this study, under the sustainable tourism phenomenon, the subject of, from which ecological point the yachting tourism which is one of the alternative tourism types should be examined in Turkey, is studied. 102The aim of the study is to evaluate facts as how to obtain the sustainability of tourism and its improvement in this respect, and while maintaning the sustainability of the regional or local, historical and natural values which are sources of tourism, keeping and improving them to ascertain what ecological effects of yachting tourism are and how could the ecological respect would be obtained for it. 103