Ecorecreation attitutes of individual interested in outdoor sports

Ecorecreation Attitutes of Individual Interested In Outdoor Sports It has been important that sports done in nature should be carried out responsibly without damaging natural resources. Based on these thoughts, in this study; It has beeen aimed to measure the attitudes of outdoor athletes towards eco-recreation In this study: 243 athletes from a total of 742 nature athletes, affiliating with cycling, mountaineering, paragliding and orienteering sports clubs and associations in the TRB1 region has been voluntarily participated.. The 'Personal Information Form' prepared by us and the 'Attitude Scale towards Ecocreation' developed by Durhan have been used as data collection tools. SPSS 23 package program has been used for data analysis. Considering the significant differences in the research findings according to the sub-dimension variable; antipathic attitude according to gender variable, behavioral attitude according to education level variable, behavior and antipathy according to marital status variable, individual and social according to sports branch variable, behavior and communication with nature according to year of playing sports, social and behavior in terms of time allocated to outdoor sports, have been observed that there are statistically significant differences in the behavioral, individual, antipathy, environmental sensitivity and attitudes of individuals who have been interested in nature sports other than themselves in their family. In conclusion, it has been observed that the attitudes of nature athletes towards echo-recreation have been high, the interest in nature in the family affects other family member and the communication with nature and environmental sensitivities have increased, on the other hand, the average score obtained in the antipathy sub-dimension should not be ignored.