Yumurtalik district tourism planning

Different land use applications in Yumurtalik and beside this decleerad as tourism center caused intensive existingland use. acording this applications, this study aimed tourism planning which takes into consideration of natural and cultural value of the district. under this frame Multi Criteria Analysis was applied. Suitable areas for both mass tourism and ecological tourism was determined.acording to analysis results, 22.72 % of the of the total area (35610,64 ha) was determined suitable for mass tourism and 25.7 % was suitable for ecolocigal tourism and proposal maps for this areas were prepared. for west and east parts of the Yumurtalık Lagoon was determined suitable for ecological tourism, including monitoring of births, sea tutles and wild life, tracking, river turism, picturing, water sposts etc.. Arkeological Sit was determined suitable for cultural-hictoric tourism due to historic pattern, Haylazlı, Yeniköy and Hamzalı Settlement including emigrant and yuruk (one of nomadic shepherd people of Anatolia) culture.