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Tourists who want to live in nature for a short period of time and want to experience the nature make the nature-based tours become more and more popular. When doing these activities, the tourist will need someone to guide himself (the tourist guide). The aim of the study in this direction is to reveal what the guidance practices are performed in the nature walk and to provide clues to tourist guides and tourist guides candidates who want to specialize in this field on how the nature walk tours are applied. In this study, the phenomenological research model was preferred from the quality research approaches. Because individual experiences are important in phenomenological research, people who have experienced the experience of the phenomenon subject to the research must make a sample. In this context, the use of sample for the purpose of research was considered appropriate. In order to provide access to the underlying ideas behind the research, tourist guides who guide the nature walk and have experience in the management of the nature tour have been interviewed. The findings show that the perceptions of tourist guides about the experience of the tour of nature meanings, structure and varieties of the tour of nature and the tourist profile and motivations of the tour of nature are five titles; the size of the tour of nature guides are treated under three titles as what should be done before, during and at the end of the tour. In addition, information is provided about the emergency situations encountered in the natural tour.

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