TY - JOUR T1 - A general overview of tourism clusters AU - Yalçınkaya, Tarık AU - Güzel, Tülay PY - 2019 DA - January DO - 10.24288/jttr.465912 JF - Journal of Tourism Theory and Research PB - Mahmut DEMİR WT - DergiPark SN - 2458-7583 SP - 27 EP - 39 VL - 5 IS - 1 LA - en AB - Being a significant strategical tool, clusteringactivities have increasingly been prominent in terms of tourism development.This study aims to explain what a tourism cluster is; how it is processed, howits network system is and how tourism clusters are classified. A view aboutclassification of clusters according to their success and labelling criteriaare presented. There is also information about certain tourism regions incluster maps. This study seeks to reveal characteristics of tourism clusters analyzingcertain tourism cluster examples. 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