A Research On Determination Barriers to Innovation in Rural Tourism Enterprises

The purpose of this research is to determine the perception of rural tourism managers to innovation barriers. Furthermore it was tried to determine the relationship between the demographic characteristics of the managers, characteristics of enterprises and the perception of innovation barriers.Findings obtained from the research determined that; while the highest average of the perception to innovation barriers regarding to “Innovate in our business involves high risk in terms of cost” expression in intra-business, “I think that the bureaucracy is high in all the supports (financial, legal, etc.) of the state which have an impact on innovation” in extra-business.As a result of the tested hypotheses; there is no significant difference between the age of the managers and the perception of innovation barriers, on the other hand there is a significant difference between the gender, educational level, tourism education, experience in the enterprises, sector experience and the perception of innovation barriers. In addition, there is a significant difference between species of enterprises, ownership status, occupancy rate, period of operation and types of innovation in enterprise and the perception of innovation barriers as the characteristics of the business