European Accessible Tourism Policy and Turkey

Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to understand if Turkey produces coherent policies with the EU in the field of Tourism. In order to reach this purpose, two theoretical and political approaches, Europeanization and Conditionality will be applied. The hypothesis of this study is: Turkey is only merely affected by the EU’s conditionality policy. As the reason of this low level enthusiasm, it will be argued that lack of reward, which is the lack of a clear vision for future membership, decreases the enthusiasm of Turkey in fulfilling EU requirements and thus Europeanizing its tourism policy. European Accessible Tourism Policy has been chosen as the case of this study. The dependent variable of the study will be the accessible tourism policy and practices in Turkey. The independent variable will be the European Accessible Policy; the interim variable will be Turkey EU relations as it provides data for interaction between Turkey and the EU.

Keywords

• Tourism Policies,Accessible Tourism,EU Tourism Policy,EU – Turkey Relations,Political Conditionality

Avrupa Erişilebilir Turizm Politikası ve Türkiye

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı Türkiye’nin turizm alanında AB ile uyumlu politika üretip üretmediğinin anlaşılmasıdır. Bu amaca ulaşılabilmesi için birbirini destekler Avrupalılaşma ve Koşulluluk adlı iki kuramsal ve politik yaklaşımdan faydalanılacaktır.  Bu çalışmanın iddiası, Türkiye’nin AB’nin koşulluluk politikalarından çok etkilenmediğidir. Bunun gerekçesi olarak da koşulluluk yaklaşımının ana bileşenlerinden olan öngörülebilir, erişilebilir ve tatmin edici bir ödülün AB tarafından Türkiye’ye vaat edilememesi olduğu ileri sürülecektir. AB’nin Erişilebilir Turizm Politikası bu çerçevede bir vaka olarak incelenecektir. Çalışmanın bağımlı değişkeni Türkiye’deki erişilebilir turizm politikası ve uygulamaları olacaktır. Bağımsız değişken ise AB’nin Erişilebilir Turizm Politikası ve bunların birbirleri ile etkileşimini sağlayan ara değişken Avrupalılaşma ve koşulluluk penceresinden AB – Türkiye ilişkileri olacaktır.  

Keywords

• Turizm Politikaları,Erişilebilir Turizm,Avrupa Birliği Turizm Politikası,AB – Türkiye İlişkileri,Avrupalılaşma,Siyasi Koşulluluk

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