Özet:

The development of tourism activities in the destinations creates positive/negative environmental, economic and socio-cultural effects. The development of tourism and its continuity after its development depends on the attitudes and behaviors of the local people in that region. The direction of the perception of the effects of tourism by the local people and the level of support to tourism influences. This study has sought to determine how the positive and negative effects of tourism affect the perceptions of the local people about the presence of tourists and what the impact of the local people on the quality of social life. The data in the study was collected with a survey that included the scale of the effects of tourism and the scale of social life satisfaction. The survey was implemented to the local people in Igneada in March 2019 with the easy sampling method. At the end of the data collection process, 188 current surveys were reached. Multiple regression analyses have been carried out to test the hypotheses based on validity and reliability analyses. The results of the analysis show that the positive environmental and socio-cultural effects of tourism have improved the quality of social life of the local people. The positive effects of tourism strengthen the local people’s thoughts that tourists are beneficial to the region. The negative environmental and socio-cultural effects of tourism also strengthen the local public’s perception that tourists are harmful to the region, while the negative economic effects of tourism weaken the local public’s perception that tourists are harmful.