TURİZMİN SOSYO-KÜLTÜREL VE ÇEVRESEL ETKİLERİNİN TURİZMİN GELİŞİMİNDEKİ ROLÜ.

The ultimate objective of this research is to examine the impact of the environmental and socio-cultural impacts of tourism on the support for the development of tourism. This effect was based on the Social Exchange Theory (SET). Structural equality modelling was used in testing the hypotheses of the research. For this purpose, the Smart PLS (V.3.2.7) program was used. The research universe is all the local people living in Eskişehir province, which has become an important tourism destination in Turkey. Convenience sampling method, which is one of the non-probability sampling methods, was used as the sampling method for the data collection in the study. In line with the findings of the research, the negative and positive environmental effects and positive social and cultural effects of tourism were found to be positive and significant for the development of tourism. Besides, the impact of the negative social and cultural effects of tourism on the support for the development of tourism was also found to be negative and significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]