Perceptions of Residents Towards The Impacts of Rural Tourism in Sinop Province (original) (raw)

Rural places in this era is one of the most effective reseource for tourism when thinking the air pollution, more cars, more noise, more gases, stress, so much time in sedentary work and less movement People search silence places which A few people knows, or places with nature, natural sources and natural people. The importance of local community in rural areas has been gained with much concern by government, researchers. Because of increasing rural tourism in global level, people also has create new job areas, increased their income and living standard. Though the local population's attitudestoward tourism are important given the argument that a happy community is more likely to support tourism development and welcome tourists (Snaith,1999: 596). Rural tourism is broadly defined by past researchers as tourism which takes place in rural areas and is run by small firms own by families of the local communities which are often related to production of local products and local activities. Rural tourism is truly global, but little is known about this new tourism product in developing countries. It is also defined that rural tourism as consisting of certain common attributes such as the areas are of low population densities and only a small proportion of land are used and hence provide the tourists with an impression of space. The term rural tourism has been used interchangeably and synonymously with some other terms, e.g. eco-tourism, green tourism, agro tourism and many others by researchers in the past (Dimitrovski vd., 2012: 288-289). Community in Rural and Urban areas support to tourism is important to ensure the commercial, socio-cultural, physiological, political and economic sustainablitiy of the industry. Their role in influencing the tourism development activites through working together with the goverment is crucial. Community attitudes are crucial for successful and sustainable tourism development because an understanding of community s' attitudes and perceptions and how these perceptions are formed regarding tourism development would be valuable knowledge for decision makers. Community is the most important party, since it is they who will be most affected either positively or negatively by tourism planning and development (Ghaderi, 2012. 8; Lane, 1994: 8). 4th EUROPEAN ECOTOURISM CONFERENCE