Bitlis İlinin Kalkınmasında Turizmin Rolünün Yerel Halkın Demografik Özelliklerine Göre Değerlendirilmesi
Evaluation The Role of Tourism On the Development of Bitlis Province According to Demographic Features of Local People

Summary/Abstract: Tourism has been causing important effects on communities. These effects can be economic, social cultural or environmental. Tourism social effects can both be negative and positive. All these effects come up with an important role which leads the countries, cities and regions to ongoing developments. Such effects can only be ensured via improving tourism industry. In order to extend the tourism in a particular region, the shareholders whom gain favour through tourism of the area, are expected to be supportive to the tourism activities of the region. In this aspect, the shareholders aware of the effects of tourism over the regional development are more likely to support tourism compared to others. All these given reasons show how important is the studies related to the role of stakeholders in a tourism derived regional development. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the demographic attributes of the local stakeholders and dig out if these attributes have any effects on the role of tourism over the development of Bitlis Province. The findings have been reached through quantitive research method via survey forms. According to the analyse results, the effects of tourism on regional development of Bitlis province has shown some changes link up with some demographic attributes of locals.

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