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This article investigates the relationship between tourism impacts on environment and residents' support for tourism development. For this purpose questionnaire technique was used, as data-collecting method in Pamukkale, which is a thermal tourism destination. Factor analysis was done, to determine variable of tourism impacts on environment and multiple regression analysis was used for the relationship between tourism impacts on environment and residents' support for tourism development. The result of the study indicates that positive and negative impact of tourism on environment affects the relationship between tourism impacts on environment and residents' support for tourism development. The most important independent groups of variables impacting on residents' support for tourism development are tourism positive impact on environment and negative impact on environment respectively.

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