The evaluation of the relationship between authenticity phenomenon and development of tourism in terms of sociological aspect: Example of Mardin

Tourism has the characteristics of being a continuous and important sector due to universal dimensions that it has reached and the psycho-sociological, socio-cultural and economical factors that it includes. The effect of these developments in tourism sector also brings with the discourses on cultures and centers of attraction.In this research, the effect of tourism development on authenticity in the province of Mardin has been dealt in the light of views of the personnel of tourism managements producing discourse of authenticity in Mardin and Midyat district centers, the administrative and local management who have businesses on this discourse and tourism sector and the population scientists who have studied on Mardin and its culture and also some association unties and civil society institutions.The findings show that the tourism sector will record development for the province of Mardin and will give this development prominence with ?the pursuit of the one beyond, being authentic and the one which is different?. However, the production of this dynamism with industrial purposes together with development process and the progress of gaining a massive action cause the tourist to encounter with the authenticity which is produced by the sector except from what s/he seeks in Mardin.