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The aim of this study is to adapt the scale of Barriers of Environmental Management Systems developed by Chan (2008). The likert type measurement tool, consisting of 28 expressions, is in a six-factor structure, including internal and external barriers. In the process of adaptation of the scale in the first stage for language validity, experts accompanied from the original language (English) to Turkish translation and reversation were made. Secondly, in order to ensure the validity of the scope, expert opinions on the subject have been taken in accordance with the recommendations and the necessary arrangements in the scale statements have been made. Thus, the scale is made suitable for the pilot application. The universe of the study covers 2339 hotels operating in Turkey and without any environmental management system, program or prize. In this direction, the middle and high-level managers of 400 hotel enterprises, which were easily obtained by sampling between 1-28 February 2021, are the sampling of the work. The data collected in the study was validity, reliability, material and correlation analysis and explanatory and verifying factors analysis. According to the findings, the expression in scale has been found to show a valid and reliable structure, situated below six dimensions parallel to the original dimensions.

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