Özet:

Reşit Saffet Atabinen is a qualified and a real Turkish iııtellectual wlıo was born in the last years of Ottoman Empire, who experietıced a lots of problems of the courıtry and who was near Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during and after the National Struggle period. He was a diplomat who knew the West very well, he was one of the important historians of his period and he was a deputy who was very close to Atatürk and a real lover ofTurkey. In this study, besides mentioning about different aspects of Reşit Saffet Atabinen, we especially try to show his characteristics in tourism field. His only purpose was Turkish people's and Turkey's being introduced as they deserved and correctly in the world. For this reason, with the desire of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, he started to apply his ideas about tourism in 1923 and after this date, he did his best for the sake of Turkish tourism's being introduced correctly both in West and East. His ideas and studies in tourism field are very modern tourism views which enlighten today's studies.

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