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It is crucial to determine the residents’ attitudes toward planned and sustainable development of tourism in a destination. In this regard, the research objective is to determine Hasankeyf residents’ attitudes towards tourism. As to importance of research is the absence of similar study in Hasankeyf before. Data was collected 370 participants above 18 age who was selected via random sample in the town populated 3118, by questionnaire based on the literature between April - July 2016. A total of 347 usable questionnaires were analyzed and the findings were evaluated. The reliability of the attitude scale was analyzed according to the Cronbach Alpha and was found to be highly reliable (0.784). A total of six dimensions were gained from the scale after factor analysis. The highest averages of the participants' responses to these dimensions were in the "support for tourism development" sub-dimension (Avg. 4,47). Participants are aware of the socio-cultural and economic positive effects of tourism and support the development of tourism in Hasankeyf

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