Creating a natural trail corridor in Artvin province using autumn coloring within the scope of sustainable tourism

The rapidly growing tourism sector in the world plays an important role in the development and development of countries and causes positive changes in cultural, social, economic and environmental factors in regions where tourism comes to the fore. Diversification of tourism activities to be undertaken by a destination network planned within the tourism region positively affects the duration of tourism and causes it to extend to twelve months. For this reason, creating the tourism activities and diversity to be created at the destination point with spatial qualities is extremely important for tourism planning decisions. It should not be forgotten that diversity in tourism activities has an extremely important impact on both regional development and eliminating interregional economic imbalances. However, the effects arising from tourism activities have positive or negative consequences for the local people. The positive concentration of the results is of great importance for the sustainability of tourism activities in the region. In this direction, the tourism potential created by the concept of "Autumn Coloration", which constitutes one of the rich natural and cultural resource values of the city of Artvin, which is the subject of the study, is discussed and examined in line with landscape planning decisions. Planning the natural trail corridor to be created by using the high color richness and natural color compositions that constitute the vegetation dynamics of the rural landscape area selected as the study area, by loading different functions into it, constitutes the model of the research. In addition, in the study, the experiences of the visitors were classified and analyzed by making self-definitions, and the destination experience in spatial relations in the concepts of "Autumn coloration-Tourism", the emotional state of autumn coloration and the effect of autumn coloration on planning strategies were examined. In this study, where the effect of autumn coloration on tourism potential was examined, it was concluded that the distinctive features of the highest visual aesthetic quality were created by the color contrast of green, red and yellow colors, and it was determined that it gave people a high feeling of saturation in tourism activities. In addition, since tourism activities that support "resident-oriented interaction" will offer visitors a more authentic travel experience, watching the autumn coloring will lead to the formation of a different tourism market. As a result, the idea that the use of different color combinations in planning in rural areas will increase the visual aesthetic quality in tourism is supported, and it is aimed to make the city more easily accessible and navigable by determining alternative natural trail corridors between Artvin-Şavşat Ardanuç districts.