AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)

Thermal tourism, a kind of health tourism, is a type of tourism which meets water, sanitation, hygiene, housing and transportation needs of people through hot and cold spring water. Along with many thermal tourism centres in Turkey, Afyonkarahisar is an important thermal tourism centre as well. In a...

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Main Authors: Evren EKİZ, Hakkı YAZICI
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut für die Welt der Türken 2016-04-01
Series:Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken
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Online Access:http://www.dieweltdertuerken.org/index.php/ZfWT/article/view/807/807
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description Thermal tourism, a kind of health tourism, is a type of tourism which meets water, sanitation, hygiene, housing and transportation needs of people through hot and cold spring water. Along with many thermal tourism centres in Turkey, Afyonkarahisar is an important thermal tourism centre as well. In addition to thermal resources, the province has natural and cultural values which are also important tourism sources. One of the prominent natural and cultural values is Frig Valley. Including visiting creations which arose as a result of geology-human relations and geologic and geomorphologic formations; the Frig Valley, has an important potential in terms of geo-tourism facilities. In this study, it was aimed to analyze geo-tourism potential of Afyonkarahisar province together with thermal tourism. Within this context, firstly, literature review; and later field study were carried out. In the light of these studies, the results indicated that the awareness about geo-tourism needs to be raised and geo-tourism needs to be planned together with thermal tourism as a whole.
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spelling doaj.art-4652ba198261453e943c44430e8f181f2022-12-22T02:13:20ZdeuInstitut für die Welt der TürkenZeitschrift für die Welt der Türken1868-89341868-89342016-04-01816781AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)Evren EKİZ0Hakkı YAZICI1Research AssistantProfThermal tourism, a kind of health tourism, is a type of tourism which meets water, sanitation, hygiene, housing and transportation needs of people through hot and cold spring water. Along with many thermal tourism centres in Turkey, Afyonkarahisar is an important thermal tourism centre as well. In addition to thermal resources, the province has natural and cultural values which are also important tourism sources. One of the prominent natural and cultural values is Frig Valley. Including visiting creations which arose as a result of geology-human relations and geologic and geomorphologic formations; the Frig Valley, has an important potential in terms of geo-tourism facilities. In this study, it was aimed to analyze geo-tourism potential of Afyonkarahisar province together with thermal tourism. Within this context, firstly, literature review; and later field study were carried out. In the light of these studies, the results indicated that the awareness about geo-tourism needs to be raised and geo-tourism needs to be planned together with thermal tourism as a whole.http://www.dieweltdertuerken.org/index.php/ZfWT/article/view/807/807Thermal TourismGeotourismFrig ValleyAfyonkarahisar
spellingShingle Evren EKİZ
Hakkı YAZICI
AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)
Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken
Thermal Tourism
Geotourism
Frig Valley
Afyonkarahisar
title AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)
title_full AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)
title_fullStr AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)
title_full_unstemmed AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)
title_short AN ALTERNATIVE DESTINATION IN THERMAL TOURISM: GEOTOURISM (AFYONKARAHISAR SAMPLE)
title_sort alternative destination in thermal tourism geotourism afyonkarahisar sample
topic Thermal Tourism
Geotourism
Frig Valley
Afyonkarahisar
url http://www.dieweltdertuerken.org/index.php/ZfWT/article/view/807/807
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