Özet:

The rural heritage areas, the natural environment, the traditional housing and social elements, have the necessary cultural landscape character to be fully preserved. In the age of technology and communication, the developing and changing economic, social and cultural parameters and factors such as intense and rapid urbanization lead to change in rural areas as well. On the other hand, settlements that preserve their traditional texture and maintain their local lifestyle have become attractions for those who want to get away from the city life. All of these factors cause multiple problems in the preservation of rural heritage. The aim of the study is to question how sustainable the protection work carried out in rural settlements is and to analyze the positive and negative effects of local tourism on the protection activities. Izmir, Foça district, Kozbeyli district, has been chosen as a work area due to its preserved traditional tissue as well as the influence of local tourism in recent years. In the urban site area, the changes in the physical environment from the registration date to the present day have been studied in the context of local tourism enterprises, location, function and relations with the historic environment. The data obtained are assessed in the context of the use of local tourism as an effective tool in rural protection studies, taking into account the heredity values of the area, the problems and potential in the settlement.

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