Author/Authors :
KARAKAŞ, Ayhan Bartın University - Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences - Department of Tourism Administration, Turkey
Abstract :
Factors for religious tourism religious places out, visiting the holy places attending religious meetings, participate in religious ceremonies, in the form of visiting religious memories. In this context, the most important cities in Turkey, Diyarbakir and Sanliurfawere dealt in this study and it was conducted by qualitaive and quantitative methods. Şanlıurfa where the prophet abraham was born , the prophet ayyub lived , blessed by Jesus and has a history for nine thousand years looks like a museum city. The reason it’s called “ the city of prophets” that many Prophets(Prophet Abraham , Prophet ayyub, Prophet Elyasa, Prophet Shuaib, Prophet Noah) lived in Şanlıurfa. There are 9 prophet’s graves and 3 Prophet’s mausoleum in Diyarbakır. These graves belongs to Prophet Zulkuf , Prophet Elisha, Prophet Asaf bin Berhiya, Prophet Enüş , Prophet Melak , Prophet Hellâk , Prophet Rüveym , Prophet Harut, Prophet Daniel. 3 mausoleum belongs to Prophet Zulkuf , Prophet jonah , Prophet Elijah. It should be noted that the most of this information is related. In history books about Prophets was told that they lived in Şanlıurfa but in these books it is not clear that whether they lived or not in Diyarbakır who has mausoleums in there. Eventually, it was offered to promote the importance of these cities by advertisements and strong images.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Religious tourism , Şanlıurfa , Diyarbakır , The City of Prophets
