Özet:

This work was done to determine the travel motivations, spending amounts, preferences and desires that brought Iranian tourists to Iğdır, with Iranian tourists entering the Gürbulak Border Gate. As a result of analysis with the SPSS package program, the source (6.7 percent) that has an impact on travel decisions of Iranian tourists is the advice of relatives. The first three reasons for preferring it are shopping, visiting relatives and commercial activities. The form of travel organization of Iranian tourists is mostly individual. The majority is the middle and the highest majority. The first four amounts of spending of Iranian tourists consist of clothing, other spending, accommodation, food and beverage. The independent group t-test conducted in order to determine whether accommodation, food-drink, recreation-animation, transport, clothing and other expenditure of the Iranian tourists who participated in the study showed significant differences according to the gender variable, the difference between accommodation, food-drink, recreation-animation and transport groups was statistically significant. The one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) found that Iranian tourists had significant differences in their accommodation, food and beverage, transport, clothing, and other expenses according to their education and occupational status. Again, it has been found that Iranian tourists have a significant difference in accommodation, food and beverage, clothing spending according to age intervals and income levels. This research has been supported by the University of Iğdır Scientific Research Projects Unit.

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