Analysis of Barriers to Sustainable Tourism Development With Interpretive Structural Modelling and Fuzzy PIPRECIA

Year 2024, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 84 - 96, 20.12.2024

Kuttusi Zorlu , Volkan Dede

Abstract

This research aims to identify the barriers to sustainable tourism (ST) development, model the interrelationships between these barriers, and rank them in order of importance. The ST barriers were modelled and clustered using ISM (Interpretive Structural Modelling) and MICMAC (Matriced' Impacts Croise's Multiplication Applique'e a' un Classement), and their ordering was determined using the fuzzy PIPRECIA (PIvot Pairwise RElative Criteria Importance Assessment) technique. For this purpose, a new model integrating ISM, MICMAC, and fuzzy PIPRECIA methods was proposed for the first time in the literature to model and analyse the barriers to ST development. This proposed model was applied as a case study in Güzelyurt (Aksaray-Türkiye), an important tourism region of Cappadocia. According to the results, infrastructural and superstructure deficiencies, a focus on economic gain, a lack of cooperation and coordination among the stakeholders, the inability to provide economic benefits, the lack of a holistic planning approach, and a lack of sustainable tourism management practises were the most important barriers to sustainable tourism. It is thought that the findings and the proposed methodological framework will contribute to the ST research literature in a theoretical context. In practical terms, it is believed to indirectly contribute to possible ST planning and management in the Güzelyurt district.

Keywords

Sustainable tourism barriers, ISM-MICMAC, Fuzzy PIPRECIA, Güzelyurt, Cappadocia

Ethical Statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Thanks

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Yorumlayıcı Yapısal Modelleme ve Bulanık PIPRECIA ile Sürdürülebilir Turizm Gelişimine Yönelik Engellerin Analizi

Abstract

Bu araştırmanın amacı sürdürülebilir turizm (ST) gelişiminin önündeki engelleri belirlemek, bu engeller arasındaki ilişkileri modellemek ve bunları önem sırasına göre sıralamaktır. ST engelleri YYM (Yorumlayıcı Yapısal Modelleme) ve MICMAC (Matriced' Impacts Croise's Multiplication Applique'e a' un Classement) kullanılarak modellenmiş ve kümelenmiş ve sıralamaları bulanık PIPRECIA (PIvot Pairwise Relative Criteria Importance Assessment) tekniği kullanılarak belirlenmiştir. Bu amaçla, ST gelişiminin önündeki engelleri modellemek ve analiz etmek için literatürde ilk kez YYM, MICMAC ve bulanık PIPRECIA yöntemlerini birleştiren yeni bir model önerilmiştir. Önerilen bu model, Kapadokya'nın önemli bir turizm bölgesi olan Güzelyurt'ta (Aksaray-Türkiye) bir vaka çalışması olarak uygulanmıştır. Sonuçlara göre, altyapı ve üstyapı eksiklikleri, ekonomik kazanıma odaklanma, paydaşlar arasında iş birliği ve koordinasyon eksikliği, ekonomik fayda sağlayamama, bütüncül bir planlama yaklaşımının eksikliği ve sürdürülebilir turizm yönetimi uygulamalarının eksikliği sürdürülebilir turizmin önündeki en önemli engellerdir. Bulguların ve önerilen metodolojik çerçevenin ST araştırma literatürüne teorik bağlamda katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir. Pratik açıdan ise Güzelyurt ilçesinde olası ST planlama ve yönetimine dolaylı olarak katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.

Keywords

Sürdürülebilir turizm engelleri, ISM-MICMAC, Fuzzy PIPRECIA, Güzelyurt, Kapadokya

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