Investigation of tourism phenomenon in Alanya related with ecological architecture

ABSTRACTTourism, which can be defined as travel and temporary accommodation as a customer to takea holiday, resting, enjoying and just for curiosity, is growing day and concerning millions ofpeople. Tourism uses nature while growing and improving. As a result, in case of implannedgrowement of tourism, tourism would destroy its own base; nature.After 1950?s, Turkey takes its place in tourism market with its own natural and historicalbeauties. However, implanned growing of tourism starts to destroy nature, even it is in dangerof losing its potential. In this essay, the destruction made by tourism is tried to explain withexamples. For getting a result, some issues like ecology, ecological architecture, architectureof tourism and ecological tourism have been examined. As a field study, Alanya, which livesthe problems told above very clearly in recent years, has been examined improvementproblems in city are investigated under sub-titles of problems in usage of sea beaches, andtraffic problems.Key Words: Ecology, ecological architecture, Tourism, environmental destruction, Alanya.i