Yaratıcı Turizm Çalışmaları: Sistematik Literatür İncelemesi

Abstract

Yaratıcı turizme ilgi gösterilmesi bilim dünyasının da dikkatini çekmektedir ve dolayısıyla bu husus güncel bir çalışma alanını meydana getirmektedir. Türkiye’nin yaratıcı turizm konusunda somut olmayan kültürel mirasları, geleneksel el sanatları ile ön plana çıktığı görülmektedir. Türkiye’de yaratıcı turizm alanındaki planlamaların ve uygulamaların takip edilmesi ve sözü edilen konuların ele alındığı ulusal ve uluslararası bilimsel araştırmaları incelemek ve değerlendirmek önem arz etmektedir. Bu araştırmada, yaratıcı turizm konusundaki ulusal ve uluslararası bilimsel araştırmaların detaylı bir şekilde bir şekilde anlaşılmasını sağlamak, ortaya konulan bilgi kümesini belirli kriterlere göre analiz etmek amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma amaçları ışığında bilimsel çalışmalar, kararlaştırılan ölçütlerden geçirilerek istatistiki ve kavramsal olarak değerlendirmeye alınmıştır. Nitel araştırma metodu baz alınarak sistematik literatür derlemesi yöntemiyle yürütülen araştırmada, ilgili çalışmaların kullandıkları yöntemler, bulundukları veri tabanları, özetleri, anahtar kelimeleri açısından değerlendirme ölçütleri ile incelemeye alınmıştır. Bulgular; yaratıcı turizmin bilim dünyasında ilgi gördüğünü; çalışmalarda nicel ve nitel yöntemlerin oranlarının eşit olduğu, daha çok derleme yöntem kullanıldığı; araştırmalarda turizmin kavramsal açıklamasına ve tanıtılmasına, belli bir destinasyonun yaratıcı turizm potansiyeline, somut olmayan kültürel mirasların yaratıcı turizm kapsamında değerlendirilmesine ve yaratıcı turistlerin seyahat motivasyonlarına odaklandığını; araştırmacıların ülkeleri sıralamasında Portekiz, Türkiye, Çin’in ilk sıralarda bulunduğunu ortaya koymaktadır.

Keywords

• Turizm
• Yaratıcı Turizm
• Sistematik Literatür

Creative Tourism Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

The interest in creative tourism has created interest among the scientific world and hence, creating a current field of study. It is seen that Turkey stands out with its intangible cultural heritage and traditional handicrafts regarding the creative tourism. It is of high significance to pursue the plans and applications in the field in question in Turkey and to examine and evaluate national and international scientific researches addressing the mentioned fields. In this research, it is aimed to provide a detailed understanding of national and international scientific researches on creative tourism and to analyze the presented information set according to certain criteria. Taking into the agreed criteria and in the light of the study objectives, scientific studies were evaluated statistically and conceptually. In the research conducted with the systematic literature review method based on the qualitative research method, the methods used by the relevant studies, the databases they are located in, their summaries, and keywords were examined with evaluation criteria. The findings indicate that creative tourism has gained attention in the scientific world; the proportions of quantitative and qualitative methods were equal in the studies and the compilation method was mostly used; The research focuses on the conceptual explanation and promotion of tourism, the creative tourism potential of a particular destination, evaluation of intangible cultural heritage within the scope of creative tourism and the travel motivations of creative tourists; and it is revealed that Portugal, Turkey and China are at the top of the researchers' list of countries.

Keywords

• Tourism
• Creative Tourism
• Systematic Literature

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