Abstract:

Once the criteria of slow city has been examined, created in the 1990s and expanded into Turkey over the past few years, one can observe that it has almost similar objectives with those subjects as the urban quality of life and sustainability. In this respect, the purpose of this study is to investigate the perceived influence of slow city on the urban quality of life in lights of sustainable tourism. The study first provides the basic information about the meaning and context of quality of life and then continues with the discussion of research findings based on the analysis of qualitative data, namely interviews. The empirical study was carried out among a selected list of local residents and business operators as well as the mayor in Seferihisar, Izmir in the summer of 2012. 

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