Sustainable tourism planning in national and regional policy documents in Turkey

The aim of this study is to examine the role and importance of sustainable tourism planning at national and regional policy documents in Turkey. In accordance with changing and transforming planning approaches, tourism planning has gained a participatory, strategic and sustainable nature. Sustainable tourism planning has emerged as an innovative approach through stakeholder analyzes, public-private partnerships, transport capacity calculations and monitoring and evaluation tools. With this study, transformation of sustainable tourism planning is discussed and current situation of this planning approach in our country is examined through policy documents. In this study, content analysis method was applied for the basic documents determining tourism policies. Within the framework of these documents, the frequency and depth of “sustainable tourism planning” concepts and its basic elements were evaluated by thematic content analysis method.