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Extreme tourism (overtourism) indicates quite crowded destinations where the transport capacity is overcome. In the destinations faced with excessive tourism demand, urban quality of life has been unacceptablely decreased. Environmental pollution, inflation, indigenous-tourist conflict and similar results show that urban quality of life is low. In this context, the purpose of the research is to evaluate the perception of urban quality of life of the local people living in Bodrum in the context of excessive tourism. The universe of research is formed by the local people living in Bodrum. A survey form has been organized using the research on the subject of the literature. The data obtained was analyzed through the SPSS (Statistical Package Program) which is widely used in social sciences. The study found that the perception of urban quality of life of the local people living in Bodrum, which is assessed as an excessive tourism, is different from demographic variables only by age.