Özet:

The number of cities in the world and in our country is slowly increasing every day. Today, people prefer to participate in alternative types of holidays. Alternative vacation routes include slow cities. With nature and drinks, local flavours and far from noise, cities slowly come to us as places where their identities are protected. In Turkey, Seferihisar is the leader in the use of slow cities as a tourist destination. Seferihisar, which has the characteristic of being the first slow city in Turkey, effectively uses the city identity to make profits from tourism. Slow cities are likely to be exposed to a number of positive and negative changes due to the fact that tourists are intense over time. In particular, the progress of social changes in slow cities can have a positive impact on the quality of life of the local people. As the quality of life increases both social and individual, the local people’s slow attitude towards the city will also be in a positive direction. This study was done to determine whether the social change in the region of Gerze, one of the slow cities in Turkey, has an impact on the perception of quality of life. The survey was conducted to the local population and 410 of them were found appropriate to evaluate. According to the results obtained, social change has statistically meaningful and positive effects on the social and individual quality of life.

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