Investigating Obstacles to Environmental Quality of the Destination – A View from Tourism Sub – Sectors: The Case of Istanbul, Turkey

Environmental Quality is a collection of properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalized or local, as they affect human beings and other organisms. It is a measure of the status of an environment relative to the needs of one or more species, any human need or objective. When we discuss environmental quality, we are actually implying the quality of the whole environment, not restricted to the natural environment. Environmental quality is a criterion for the degree of health of that environment (comprising the plants and animals it supports), and of the impacts it has on the health, leasure, and psychological state of the people that inhabit it. In this research, we aim to find out the impact of tourism on the environmental issue, accompanied by a comprehension of how to increase the quality of environment from tourism sector. In order to gather and analyze data, a qualitative approach to research was performed. 10 hotel managers and tour leaders were interviewed employing semi-structured interviewing techniques. The analysis of the data revealed the obstacles to environmental quality of the destination-a view from tourism sectors in Istanbul. Keywords: Environmental Quality, Sustainability, Tourism Sector.