HEARING IMPAIRED TOURISM (SILENT TOURISM): AN EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL IN TURKEY AND THE WORLD

Year 2018, Volume: 9 Issue: 20, 103 - 117, 27.02.2018

Zafer Yıldız , Savaş Yıldız , Sinem Bozyer

https://doi.org/10.21076/vizyoner.339776

Cited By: 8

Abstract

The
tourism sector is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In an
environment of increasing competition, developing new types of tourism and
attracting more tourists in new destinations have become a serious advantage.
One of the most important types of the tourism sector is the tourism for physically
disabled individuals. The tourism for physically disabled individuals that
emerged with the engagement of physically disabled persons in touristic
activities is a brand-new tourism branch in Turkey whose infrastructure has not
been developed yet. There are more than 1 billion physically disabled persons
in the world and the tourism market of physically disabled individuals only in
Europe reached to 150 million Euros as of 2016. Silent tourism means a tourism
branch implying hearing impaired tourism. Hearing-impaired persons have been
chosen as the subject of this study since they do not require any additional
investments in travel and accommodation. The purpose of this study is to assess
the current state of supply and demand related to hearing-impaired person group
that does not require any investments in travel and accommodation and as the
target demand market hearing-impaired persons living in Europe and the USA have
been chosen. The study reveals that there is a significant number of
hearing-impaired persons in Turkey and in the world. The studies conducted in
Turkey demonstrate that there is a lack of investments in infrastructure aimed
at disabled persons in rest stops. One of the findings of this study is that
since the situation explained above does not hinder in any way tourism-oriented
at hearing-impaired persons the latter is the best-suited form of
disabled-oriented tourism for Turkey.

Keywords

Silent Tourism, Tourism, Disabled Tourism, Hearing Impairent

İŞİTME ENGELLİ TURİZMİ (SESSİZ TURİZM): DÜNYA VE TÜRKİYE POTANSİYELİNE YÖNELİK BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Abstract

Turizm sektörü, dünyanın en hızlı gelişen sektörlerden biridir. Artan
rekabet ortamında yeni turizm çeşitleri geliştirmek ve yeni destinasyonlarla
daha fazla turisti cezbetmek önemli bir avantaj halini almıştır. Turizm
sektörünün en önemli çeşitlerinden biri engelli turizmi pazarıdır. Engelli
bireylerin turistik aktiviteye katılması ile ortaya çıkan engelli turizmi, Türkiye
açısından oldukça yeni ve altyapısı henüz oluşturulamamış bir sektördür.
Dünya'da 1 milyarın üzerinde engelli birey bulunmakta ve sadece Avrupa'da engellilerin
oluşturduğu turizm pazarı 2016 yılı itibariyle 150 milyon Euro'ya ulaşmış
bulunmaktadır. Sessiz turizm ise, engelli bireyler içinde işitme engellilerin
oluşturduğu grubu ifade etmek için kullanılmıştır. Seyahat ve konaklama
konusunda herhangi bir ilave yatırıma ihtiyaç duymamaları sebebiyle işitme
engelliler çalışma konusu yapılmıştır. Bu çalışma, engelliler arasında seyahat
ve konaklama için ayrı bir yatırım gerektirmeyen işitme engelli grubun engelli
turizm açısından talep ve arz olarak mevcut durumunu değerlendirmek üzere
yapılmış ve hedef talep pazarı olarak Avrupa ve ABD'de yaşayan özellikle işitme
engelliler seçilmiştir. Yapılan çalışma, Dünya ve Türkiye'de ciddi oranda
işitme engelli birey olduğunu göstermektedir. Ayrıca Türkiye'de yapılan
çalışmalar, konaklama tesislerinde engellilere yönelik altyapı yatırımlarının
yetersizliğini tespit etmektedir. Sessiz turizm açısından ise bu durum herhangi
bir engel teşkil etmediğinden Türkiye açısından en uygun engelli turizmi çeşidinin
sessiz turizm olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Sessiz Turizm, Turizm, Engelli Turizmi, İşitme Engelli, İşitme Engelli

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