European Accessible Tourism Policy and Turkey

The main purpose of the study is to understand if Turkey produces coherent policies with the EU in the field of Tourism. In order to reach this purpose, two theoretical and political approaches, Europeanization and Conditionality will be applied. The hypothesis of this study is: Turkey is only merely affected by the EU’s conditionality policy. As the reason of this low level enthusiasm, it will be argued that lack of reward, which is the lack of a clear vision for future membership, decreases the enthusiasm of Turkey in fulfilling EU requirements and thus Europeanizing its tourism policy. European Accessible Tourism Policy has been chosen as the case of this study. The dependent variable of the study will be the accessible tourism policy and practices in Turkey. The independent variable will be the European Accessible Policy; the interim variable will be Turkey EU relations as it provides data for interaction between Turkey and the EU