مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Religious Tourism Spaces of Siirt: Ziyaret (Veysel Karani) and Tillo (Aydınlar) Samples

Abstract :

Tourism is an international giant socioeconomic sector that becomes more important progressively –as an economic value-. This sector consists of approximately 300 diverse types and fields. One of them is religious tourism. Religious tourism can be defined as visiting holy centers/spaces for all the religious systems and as socioeconomic income. The most important religious centers of the Islam World are Mecca and Medina. The same case is for Jerusalem, Rome and Ephesus in Christianity, Jerusalem gain in Judaism as holy places to be visited. Apart from these prominent religious centers, there are different spaces/centers considered as holy for different religious and belief systems in different parts of the world. For instance; Towns of Ziyaret (Veysel Karani) and Tillo (Aydınlar) where tombs of Veysel Karani who played a huge role in spreading of Islam and of İbrahim Hakkı who followed him are located, are visited by thousands of people every year. These two towns which are very significant for Islam belief have been mentioned more and more through the acceleration in religious tourism in recent years. Provided that finding solutions for the planning, advertisement, accommodation, transportation and other infrastructure and superstructure problems of these two important religious centers located in Siirt, it will make it possible for the region and even country to have important socioeconomic incomes.