Abstract
A Study on the Effects of Cultural Heritage on the Attitudes and Evaluations of Tourists: The Case of the Historic Peninsula
Fatih district has been described as a “historical peninsula” by UNESCO since 1985. The purpose of this research is to reveal the attitudes and evaluations of tourists about historical and cultural assets and destination tourism located in Fatih using the survey technique. The goal of this study is to show the attitudes and assessment of tourists about the historical and cultural heritage in Fatih district and destination tourism by using the survey technique. Within the scope of this goal, questions were asked to the tourists on the base of measuring their demographic characteristics, opportunities, images, attitudes, and behaviors. The correlation analysis method from quantitative research techniques has been used in the research. The dataset obtained with the help of the survey has been transposed to the SPSS 26 program. Validity, reliability, kurtosis, and skewness tests have been performed for statistical analysis adequacy. Within the content of statistical results, research questions have been developed and the direction and relations between the judgments in the questionnaire had been determined. The museum statistics of the museums in Fatih district for the years 2005-2019 has been obtained to make sense of the cultural tourism attraction. Accordingly, the increasing and decreasing trends in the number of tourists visiting museums on the historical peninsula over the past 15 years is largely affected by the changing attitudes and perceptions of tourists towards Turkey, the negative effects of adverse conditions of Turkey in this period of time, and bilateral relations with other countries.
Keywords
Historical Peninsula, Fatih, History, Culture, Tourism, Museum
