Research Article

A Model Proposal For Sustainable Destination Management: The Case Of Ayvalık

Volume: 17 Number: 37 May 31, 2021
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A Model Proposal For Sustainable Destination Management: The Case Of Ayvalık

Abstract

Destinations need to conserve natural and cultural resources by using in a controlled manner and attach importance to sustainable tourism to be able to obtain competition advantage. At this point; organizing among the stakeholders consisting destination management is very important for shared decision making and carrying out necessary functions such as product development, visitor managemet, destination marketing, creating common competitive power, lobbying, market regulatory, crisis management and finding financial resource. The purpose of research is to develop suggestions that provide Ayvalık, tourism and olive oil city, to become more sustainable destination, conveying of things to do to the stakeholders and develop a model to manage Ayvalık as a sustainable destination. The model developed in this study is aimed to apply in Ayvalık and help new researchs that will be implemented in Ayvalık and other destinations in future. In this research, semi-structured interview technique has been performed. Data consists of comments of participants and author’s observations. Within research, forty two stakeholders under the categories of centralized administration, local administration, private sector, non-governmental organizations and other (local community, tourists, etc.) have been interviewed. Descriptive and content analyses have been performed in analysing of the data. “Organization Model” for sustainable destination management of Ayvalık has been put forward based on findings, observations and literature search.

Keywords

Sustainable Tourism , Sustainable Destination Management , Destination Management Model , Ayvalık

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APA
Dinç, Y., Kömür, T., & İlban, M. O. (2021). Sürdürülebilir Destinasyon Yönetimi İçin Bir Model Önerisi: Ayvalık Örneği. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 17(37), 4376-4399. https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.896321