Abstract :
When it is mentioned about tourism, many people think about the tourist coming from out of country. But, the countries that have the ambition for a balanced growing and progressing should supply the balance between the domestic and incoming market. Because of the thoughts that domestic tourism has no effect for currency and the necessary conscious not being gained, the domestic tourism hasn’t developed in Turkey. Tourism contributes to the region economically, socially, politically, culturally and psychologically where it takes place. So, it should be known that, in order to use the effects of tourism, the domestic tourism must be progressed. As a result of the literature review, in front of Turkey s domestic tourism progressing, two major obstacles have been discovered. People who have low levels of income stay away from domestic tourism, while the people whose income levels getting increase prefer abroad holidays. In this study, with the help of statistics in 2008 of Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the distribution of domestic tourism potential according to the regions, cities are shown with tables. Also, the importance of the domestic tourism and the way for progressing the domestic tourism will be analyzed. While some examples of tourism kinds in other destinations are given, some issues will be offered within the regions to direct the local people who prefer to holiday abroad instead of Turkey.
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Domestic Tourism , Analysis of Domestic Tourism in Turkey , The Ways To Progress the Domestic Tourism , Alternative Tourism Opportunities
