Click here for the full text.

Authors: Ibrahim Cetin, Orhan Icoz, Tulay Polat Uzumcu

Abstract: Agriculture, as a traditional food production area, has played a key role in the development of societies for many years throughout the history. But, rural areas have been neglected by humans due to the inevitable consequence of industrial revolution for many years. Consequently, city settlements attracted many rural inhabitants owing to the social and cultural changes, which turned rural areas into the unproductive idle areas. Thus, these areas faced with the danger of losing their attractiveness due to the increasing production costs and inefficient use of arable lands. Within this scope, thanks to the development of tourism industry, these areas have gained their importance once again. For rational utilization of tourism development by the tourist attractions, tourism strategies need to be redesigned in a sustainable way considering such factors as the preservation-utilization balance of land uses. The purpose of this evaluative study is to reveal the opinion on the ways of tourism development as an alternative in the socio-economic development of rural areas. Within this context, it was aimed to develop and suggest a sustainable tourism model for Kandira town, with its high rural tourism potential depending on the natural and unspoilt rural areas within the borders of Kocaeli as an industrial city.

Keywords: Industrialization, rural tourism, tourism planning, sustainability, Kandira.

DOI: 10.18421/TRZ21.02-01

Article info: 65-80

Received: February 2017 | Accepted: Jun 2017

Click here for the full text.

Authors: Aleksa Š. Vučetić, Snežana Milošević

Abstract: This paper seeks to explain the influence of job stability on employees’ perception about the importance of concrete measures and activities of tourism policy in the destination of cultural tourism. The research was conducted with employees in the sector of cultural tourism in Montenegro. The sample size was n = 746, and the main statistical procedure was a multivariate analysis of variance. Data were conducted with interviewing procedure and analyzed by SPSS Statistic software. The main research outcome is that there is a significant difference between employees who have a very stable job and employees who have no stable job in the employees’ perception of the importance of concrete measures and activities of tourism policy in the destination of cultural tourism. It is about sample size structure of transitional destination of cultural tourism. This study can help policymakers in the field of tourism policy and cultural tourism to create an optimal set of concrete measures and activities of tourism policy for the destination of cultural tourism. Specifically, the contribution is reflected in the field of influence of job stability on that process and the role of part-time and full-time employees in the sector of cultural tourism.

Keywords: Job stability of employees, concrete measures and activities of tourism policy, the
destination of cultural tourism, Montenegro.

DOI: 10.18421/TRZ21.02-02

Article info: 81-89

Received: May 2017 | Accepted: July 2017

Click here for the full text.

Authors: Yenal Yağmur, Oğuz Doğan

Abstract:In spite of the importance of tourists’ risk perceptions for destinations in tourism literature, there is a limited research has been carried out in Turkey. The main purpose of this study is to examine foreign tourists’ risk perceptions about Turkey. For this purpose, the study has been carried out by German tourists who visited to Antalya which is one of the important tourism destinations in Turkey in between March-December 2016. The results revealed the tourists’ positive belief about safety of Turkey. The results also revealed that physical risk factor has a positive effect on the overall risk perception.

Keywords: Risk perception, perceived risk, Antalya, Turkey

DOI: 10.18421/TRZ21.02-03

Article info: 90-101

Received: May 2017 | Accepted: Jun 2017

Click here for the full text.

Authors: Nikola Vuksanović, Dragan Tešanović, Milijanko Portić, Predrag Tošić

Abstract:The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of attitudes of the local residents on the consumption of food products. The survey included a sample of 332 respondents who visited 15 events that take place in the territory of Novi Sad. The findings of this study point to the importance of attitudes of the local residents as an important component of the development of gastronomic tourism. The study included examining the differences between the socio – demographic characteristics of the local residents in relation to consumption of food products. The differences were examined using the T-test for independent samples. The results show that there are differences between gender, age groups and levels of education, but not for monthly incomes in relation to consumption of food products. This study allows the economic and local sectors to better understand the importance of attitudes of the local residents and consumption of food products, as part of gastronomic tourism, and how to improve the acceptability among visitors.

Keywords: gastronomic tourisam, consumption of food products, local residents attitudes,
Novi Sad

DOI: 10.18421/TRZ21.02-04

Article info: 102-110

Received: Jun 2017 | Accepted: Jun 2017