bilig-22/ Summer 2002

TOURISM AND SAFRANBOLU MODEL IN THE
STRATEGY OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

 

Assis. Prof. Dr. Ahmet GÜRBÜZ
Zonguldak Karaelmas University
Safranbolu Vocational College


ABSTRACT

       Turkey has come a long way in the development process and reached a degree in which regional and local changes became more visible concerning the distribution and density of economic activity in the place.
       Local development implicates social, political and cultural elements as well as economic ones. The approach accepted in the first two of Five-Year Development Plan as the priority to the less developed regions changed into the shape of giving incitement to some cities determined in 1968. The approach about local government's that have the priority in development was taken in hand in the 3rd Plan. In Turkey a concious local development policy able to set the economic activities in motion may be put in practice is touristic values.
       Tourism is a kind of activity which is economic considering the foreign currency and employment and socio-cultural considering its ability to meet people's needs and to bring different cultures together. It is ability to create the demand for the best use of resources. Tourism can be evaluated as a kind of strategy appealed for the effective use of the country resources, for the country's development, wealth and superiority in the international area.
       Turkey has been a place in which many cultures have came together for centuries as a result of its location connecting three different continents. So, in every part of our country there is the historical and in the other parts of the world. Safranbolu is one of the rarely found museum-cities that we have.
       The purpose of this study is to emphasize the role of tourism activities in the economic,socio-cultural and architectural development of a place by means of Safranbolu model which has a twenty-five-year background.

 


Key Words : Tourism, Local Development, Safranbolu, Tourism and Safranbolu

 

 

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