Abstract:

Conservation of nature is to guarantee human health and life and preserve the natural parts and the existence of plants and animals living in nature, their growth and living conditions. All of the visits people make in order to see the natural, cultural and historical places in different places are defined as tourism. The tourism sector is linked to all its services and products and natural areas and natural resources while tourism investments and developments that require very wide areas can also be a threat element in terms of nature protection. In this study, the contradictions between the development of tourism in the Southern Antalya region and the work of nature protection were addressed in the scale of area loss and change. in the area 69. The boundaries of the Olympos-Beydağları National Park announced in 800 hectares were also removed from the settlements of Beldibi, Göynük, Kemer, Çamyuva and Tekirova to 34.425 hectares, while in Beldibi 865, Göynük 1.030, Kemer 4.035, Tekirova and in the 1.115 hectares of tourism development area, a shift was made from forest and agricultural areas to organized tourism and settlements. Changes in forest areas resulted in the loss of ecologically important areas in the coastal section, and changes in agricultural areas resulted in the abandonment of local people's traditional use of areas and the opening of agricultural areas to tourism.

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