The place of gastronomy culture in tourism: The investigation with the tourists who visit Serik

In this investigation the local and foreign tourists' thoughts about the gastronomy torusim, their behaviour, whether there are differences between the culture have been investigated. At the same time the place of gastronomy culture in tourism has been investigated. From this point of view, in order to distinguish the place of gastronomy culture in tourism an inquiry has been held among the local and foreign tourists. Our investigation has been compiled in the model of descriptive inquiry which is based on the quantity information. The universe of the investigation consists of the local and foreign tourists who visit Serik. The model of the investigation consists of 404 people who have been selected voluntarily in order to give a gift to the investigation in Belek, Kadriye and Boghazkent as the seashore settlements of the region Serik, where there are many tourists. In this search the method of inquiry has been used as the technique of the received information. The inquiry which has been used in the investigation consists of two parts. There are some questions referring to the participants' demographic features in the first part of the inquiry. But in the second part the questions have been compiled under four titles referring to the interest on the gastronomy culture of the tourists who visit Serik, their interest to the capacity and to the enterprises of food and beverages. The information which has been received from the investigation has been analysed in the statistic programme SPSS 22. The frequency of the demographic information, its percentage, average value have been determined. The reliability of the information has been analysed by means of the technique of Cronbach Alpha. The test of Mann Whitney U has been used in order to determine the connection with the demographic information and the level of their participation. The comparison between there or more groups has been analysed by means of the test of Kruskall-Wallis H. The importance of the distribution of the replies to the expressions has been analysed by means of the test of One Sample Chi-Square. The method of inquiry referring to the distinguishing of the differences between the gastronomy in Serik and the demographic peculiarities has been used among the tourists who visit Serik. 404 inquiry forms applied to the tourists who visit the region have been analysed. According to the analysed result it has been determined that the tourists who visit Serik have vague ideas of the gastronomic values of Serik.