A Reseach to Measure Bosphorus Region Resıdents' Tourism Support

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine whether there is a difference between the residents' tourism support on the development of tourism in the regions where tourism has developed however the regions' social, cultural, physical and political conditions are similar in some ways and also to state if there is a difference then find out the reason behind it – which feature of the citizens caused such diffrence. With in this purpose first of all, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was applied in order to discover the factors identifying Bosphorus Region residents' attıtude towards tourism development, the objective and subjective variables considered and also to determine the relation between the variables the PCA was applied. Second, to define the rating of each factor supporting tourism in terms of PCA, Weighted Linear Combination Method was held. Research data was gathered via a survey applied to 476 people accomodating in Bosphorus Region in May and March in 2014. Considering the results of this researh it' s found out that the attitudes of the citizens of Bosphorus Region to torism region resıdents' contribution of towards tourism development differed according to the perceived impact of tourism, effects of tourism on socio-cultural, physical and political environment and also the locational distribution of scors with in Bosphorus region is given. Finally, findings of this research are discussed with support of related literature.

Keywords

• tourism development
• tourism support
• perceived impact of tourism
• principal components analysis
• weighted linear combination method
• bosporus area.