Faruk ALAEDDİNOĞLU, Alpaslan ALİAĞAOĞLU

Keywords: tourism,planning,tourism planning,development plans,Turkey

Abstract

There are few studies done on the success o f planning which is a tool to maximize the benefits tourism development brings in. The plans with distinctive scales have been made in ali the world and ın our country especially for the last 30-40 years and they are stili being made. Tourism planning has götten importance since 1963 in our country with eight general national development plans and local sacaled plans. This study tries to put forth to what extent tourism planning effects the development in tourism and plan targets are caried out by analysing the results of tourism plans in our country. In conclusion, it is seen that each fîve-year plan remains behind the suggested objects and the same decisions appear in the following planning goals. This situation is mostly related to the plans made which don't take note o f our country's geograplrc factors. The other factor is that there exist some problems between decision and approval mechanism in tourism planning.