Security perceptions and expectations of domestic tourists - A sample of Southeastern Anatolia<p>Yerli turistlerin güvenlik algılarının belirlenmesi - Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi örneği
Journal Title: Journal of Human Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 13, Issue 1
Abstract
Tourism is a quite touchy sector against the situations such as act of god (volcanic eruption, flooding, earthquake, storm, etc.), war, terrorism and riots. The main priority of tourism activity participator tourists is whether the country or region where they want to travel is safe or not. Because tourists travel for resting, let of steam, relaxing or vocationally. On the other hand while the tourists take travel decision acts by considering the warnings of their state and media etc. elements. Accordingly, safe perception of a region or a country has significantly importance in order to provide the sustainability of tourism sector. In this context, how domestic tourists perceive southeastern Anatolia region with safe aspects was tried to revealed, after safety concept was handled by associating with tourism. In the research it has been reached that, the participants mostly attach importance to security factor in vacation. Perceptions of those who participated “GAP” tour was assessed in six dimensions such as “general security”, “terrorist actions”, “health security”, “hotel security”, “food security” and “transportation security”. As a result of assessment, while the “hotel security” perception of those who attended the Southeastern Anatolia region tour has the highest participation, “general security” perception has the lowest participation dimension been determined. Besides the participators feel themselves in safe in the hotels of GAP tour, they also had even a little anxiety about the terrorism actions while they were taking to attend GAP tour. ÖzetTurizm, doğal afetler (volkanik patlama, sel, deprem, kasırga vb.), savaş, terör ve isyan gibi durumlara karşı oldukça hassas bir sektördür. Turizm faaliyetine katılan turistlerin en önemli öncelikleri arasında, seyahat ettikleri ülke veya bölgelerin güvenli olup olmadığı yer almaktadır. Çünkü turistler; dinlenmek, stres atarak rahatlamak veya meslek amacıyla seyahat ederler. Öte yandan turistler, seyahat kararı alırlarken, kendi devletinin seyahat uyarılarını ve medya gibi unsurları da dikkate alarak hareket etmektedirler. Dolayısıyla turizm sektöründe sürekliliğin sağlanabilmesi adına bir ülke ya da bölgenin güvenilir olarak algılanması son derece önem arz etmektedir. Bu bağlamda; bu araştırmada güvenlik kavramı turizmle ilişkilendirilerek ele alındıktan sonra, yerli turistlerin Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi’ni güvenlik boyutuyla nasıl algıladıkları ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Araştırmada; katılımcıların tatilde en çok güvenlik unsuruna önem verdikleri sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. GAP turuna katılanların güvenlik algıları “genel güvenlik”, “terör eylemleri”, “sağlık güvenliği”, “otel güvenliği”, “gıda güvenliği” ve “ulaşım güvenliği” şeklinde altı boyutta değerlendirilmiştir. Değerlendirme sonucunda, Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi’ne yönelik turlara katılan katılımcıların “otel güvenliği” algısı en yüksek katılıma sahip iken, “genel güvenlik” algısı en düşük katılıma sahip boyut olarak tespit edilmiştir. Katılımcıların GAP turunda konaklama yapılan otellerde kendilerini güvende hissetmelerinin yanısıra GAP turuna katılım kararı alırken terör eylemleri ile ilgili olarak az da olsa endişe duydukları bir başka araştırma sonucu olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır.
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Şimal Aymankuy, Özge Güdü Demirbulat, Yusuf Aymankuy
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