Investigation of the effect of COVID-19 on water sports from tourism and recreational activities during the pandemic process

This study was considered to examine the effects of the pandemic on the aquatics field in terms of sports tourism and recreational activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, data was collected by creating a semi-structured interview form in a qualitative research model. Content analysis method from qualitative analysis techniques was used to evaluate and analyze the responses of the participants to the interview forms. In the results, they were explained by directly quoting the participants' statements, expressed in the form of themes, categories and codes, and associated and interpreted. In the study, 46.2% of participants reported that they had suffered material damage, and 53.8% had not suffered material damage. In the study, it was found that the majority of participants thought that Covid-19 had a negative impact on tourism in general, but in this process they concentrated on the fact that water sports centers were not negatively affected. 84.6% of respondents said that if the Covid-19 process continues for a certain period of time, the businesses in which they work will be negatively affected and will be damaged at certain rates, while 15.4% said that they do not think they will be harmed. As a result of the analysis of the results obtained from the interviews in the study, the codes "customer", "economy", "tourism" and "domestic-foreign," "financial damage", "negative effects", "tourist" and "working difficulties" belonging to these themes were determined in the category "Covid-19 and Water Sports". Based on the findings of the research, as a result, it can be said that the concepts of customer, economy and tourism are concepts directly related to Covid-19 and water sports. Covid-19 pandemic in the period of the negative effects of tourism, such as tourism stakeholders also closely through many areas and elements that can be considered as a business, which are the subject of our research is even less affected by adverse conditions such as water sports centre of the pandemic on behalf of a healthy interaction between representatives of the necessary research and its related processes such concrete measures that could be demonstrated even with less damage to circumvent it is believed that the pandemic may help.