COĞRAFİ İŞARET TESCİLLİ DÖŞEMEALTI HALILARININ TURİZME KAZANDIRILMASI.

Tourism consists of conventional and alternative activities that stimulate a country's economy and promote its culture. Traditional tourism involves entertainment and vacation travel, while alternative tourism emphasizes local lifestyle, culture, and natural areas. Turkey has many types of tourism, including vacation, health, congress, cultural, and natural tourism, which have given it a significant position in the worldwide tourism industry. Antalya, renowned as the tourist capital, has several recently found and yet to be discovered natural wonders, as well as blue flag beaches. Tourism activities have recently begun in sectors such as health tourism and congress-fair tourism. Furthermore, tourist activities targeted at representing the region's culture, such as caverns, ruins, archaeological sites, highland tourism, and rural tourism, continue. Döşemealtı carpets, well-known in traditional weaving literature, were recently registered as the 13th Geographical Indication Registered product of Antalya by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office. Incorporating these carpets into alternative tourism activities will promote local and rural development. This type of weaving, which is made only in Döşemealtı, is a heritage that should be supported as a part of tourism, as it is an ongoing cultural value. This heritage should be brought to tourism within the scope of alternative tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]