Abstract:

The rapid development of science and technology has led to changes in the working conditions, family structures, world views, beliefs and needs of individuals. As a result of these changes, many historic structures have lost, abandoned and dropped. These remaining structures have gained value by understanding the importance of sustainability in tourism and have been re-functioned in the framework of the principle of living. As a result of this situation, poor resources have been preserved, cultural sustainability has been achieved and social, cultural and economic contribution has been provided to the surrounding structures. As a result of this fact, this study has been investigated with the survey technique of what are the attractiveness factors that make it possible to prefer historical houses in Kastamonu. In the analysis of the data, the statistical package program, with the exception of "percentage" and "frequency", was applied to non-parametric "Mann Whitney U" and "Kruskal Wallis" tests. According to the results of the study, the factors that allow accommodation hotels to be preferred are: professional, economic situation, culture and lifestyle. It is also found that these factors significantly differ from the individual characteristics of tourists, gender, educational status and total monthly income.

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