Özet:

Cultural transformation is a result of cultural interaction that arises in a globalized world. Destinations are known as special points where cultural interaction is experienced directly. The theory of culturalization has a more than a hundred years of application process that explains cultural transformation. This theory is the subject of the description of cultural transformation and contains valuable patterns and assumptions. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to evaluate the theory of culturalization, which is often used in the disciplines of anthropology, sociology and psychology while not sufficiently tested in the field of tourism, to explain which methods and methods of measurement theoretical assumptions are tested, to reveal the place of tourism research in the literature of culturalization, and to reveal that the theory of culturalization has the assumptions that can be used in the description of tourism-oriented cultural transformation. In this context, the models related to the theory of culturalization have been evaluated in theoretical and methodological terms. However, it has been explained how the characteristics of the tourism phenomenon can be integrated into the literature of culture. The study has revealed the conditions to be taken into account in the model that needs to be formed in order to use the theory in tourism research. In this regard, the principles that should be taken into account in the formation of the tourist culture model was suggested.

Özet:

Cultural change is a result of cultural interaction in a globalizing world. In this context, destinations are known as special spots giving experience to tourists and locals via cultural interaction which is scrutinized in the scope of acculturation as a centurial theory. Although not satisfyingly evaluated in the tourism field, acculturation theory has numerous models and assumptions explaining how mutual interaction affect the cultural transformation of both sides. For this reason, addressing acculturation theory from the tourism perspective, then responding to questions regarding how to analyze and with which measurement means are appropriate, also determining the station where tourism field can be placed within the acculturation literature constitutes the main purposes of this study. In accordance with this purpose, models and assumptions in question were evaluated and explained to integrate them into the tourism field considering specialties of both tourism system and acculturation literature. In conclusion, factors necessary for constructing a proper tourism induced acculturation model were put forward. 

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