Abstract:

In this study, it is aimed to determine how tourism led to a change on local people’s social life by comparing previous and subsequent periods of the onset of tourism activities in Alanya, one of Turkey’s most important tourism destination. At the same time, it is also aimed to determine how individuals, who are directly related and have and who do not have direct income from tourism sector, perceive the effects of tourism. To this end, face-to-face interviews were held with 40 local people who were at least 18 years old in 1980 and lived in Alanya before 1980 and personally experienced of pretourism times and mass tourism times in Alanya. A semi-structured interview form used to collect data between 4-11 October 2019. Judgment and snowball sampling methods were used. As a result of the content and descriptive analysis, it is found that the family, relatives and neighbors' relations of the participants of both groups deteriorated with the development of tourism, the authority of parents on children weakened, marriages with foreigners increased, local dress style and daily spoken language changed. It was also found that eating habits and roles of women society changed. On the other hand, the participants associated with tourism; It has been determined that they want the tourism to develop more in Alanya by developing a more positive perspective than the participants who are not related to tourism.

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