%0 Journal Article
%T THE ALTERNATIVE TOURISM POTENTIAL OF MANAVGAT (ANTALYA)
%A Ayhan AKI£¿
%A Ba£¿tš¹rk KAYA
%J -
%D 2018
%X The area of this study is located at the Mediterranean coast of Turkey in the Antalya Sub-Region of Mediterranean Region. Manavgat as one of the township of Antalya province is located between the Northern latitudes of 36o 38£¿ 22£¿£¿ and 37o 25£¿ 45£¿£¿, and the Eastern longitudes of 31o 02£¿ 25£¿£¿ and 31o 44£¿ 35£¿£¿. The area of township is 2 283 square kilometers. The primary aim of the study is to point out alternative tourism potential in Manavgat and to determine what kind of effort can be made to improve the type of tourism activities. The other aim of this research is to determine what kind of long lead impacts of alternative tourism activities. Having been observed in the other tourism regions as well, the financial effect is of great significance as one of the foremost effects within the region. The local community intending to benefit from the economic outcomes of tourism within the research area is mostly interested in that aspect of tourism for good reason. Thus among the numerous negative effects of tourism in the region the most outstanding of them is the environmental effects. Several dimensions of environmental effects can be discussed such as solid waste pollution, water pollution, and the distortion of natural appearance due to the tourism facilities. Determining the ways of solutions for these issues by thoroughly revealing the environmental effects in the research area is crucial. In Turkey Manavgat is one of the places where tourism boom of the 1980s was experienced. The waterfalls, beaches, caves, streams, mountainous areas, many plant and wild animal species all lead the county to tend towards alternative tourism. In the tourism activities in the research field, it is seen that the contribution of alternative tourism is increasing more and more. Activities like ecological walks, rafting, tableland tourism, safari, mountain trekking attract attention as prominent alternative tourism activities to be improved
%K Turizm
%K alternatif turizm
%K eko-turizm
%K Manavgat
%K Side
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/asya/issue/36379/387029