Abstract:

In this study, a tourist center and also Turkey's 11th Sakinşehr the Uzundere (Erzurum) was carried out in the district. The aim of the study is to evaluate national-regional and local socio-economic, strategic and spatial planning studies affecting Uzundere and the programs for destination formation within the framework of sustainable tourism in relation to local development and to determine the equivalence of planning studies in applications. In this context, a sustainability assessment survey was conducted with a focus group of 40 people. The results of the study show that the national-regional and local planning studies, which are effective in determining the development and development perspective of the district, have not been evaluated as sustainable by the focus group since they do not have the basic strategies and actions required by sustainable tourism in terms of many criteria. In addition, it was determined that local planning studies could not be implemented due to the lack of monitoring and evaluation system in many issues. As a result, it has been evaluated that tourism development for Uzundere will be sustainable and will serve local development if the basic strategies foreseen by sustainable tourism are developed in planning studies, local people, local environment, visitor satisfaction and planning, management and monitoring.

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