Abstract:

The study emphases on relationships between Directors of Provincial Directorates of Culture and Tourism (PDCT)'s and their stakeholders. Accordingly, PDCT's perceptions which are related to destination stakeholders' potential to threaten and cooperate with the PDCT's, the problems which are composed by destination stakeholders and applied strategies toward to destination stakeholders by PDCT's are tried to determined in this study. As a result of performed analyses related to data gained by questionnaire form, the most important stakeholders perceived by destination management are determined as governorships, municipalities and provincial authority. Moreover, the majorities of stakeholders tend to support and cooperate with destination management. However, the stakeholders follow the participative strategy more than the others and they tend to keep away from causing potential threat or problem.

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