Abstract
Cruise tourism and tourism routes directed to the natural and cultural landscape areas of the region constitute the paradigm of this study, which is considered as an alternative tourism type in the Black Sea basin. With this paradigm developed for international port cities that have coasts on the Black Sea basin, each dynamic of the cultural, social, and economic values of the cities at national and international levels are approached as a phenomenon in this study. In this study, the results obtained by correlating the cognitive states of individuals resulting from the "natural sociability-social experience-social environment" approach in touristic travel with the cruise tourism type in the Black Sea basin are examined with empirical methods. In addition to correlation and regression analysis, landscape planning and design criteria are also used in route planning to reveal the causal relationships between cruise tourism experiences and people's destination loyalty. Both the sustainability of the attraction of natural and cultural landscape areas in destination loyalty and the positive conscience gained from the tourism experiences the people are examined with proactive solution suggestions in this study. In this context, with cruise tourism, which is suggested as an alternative tourism type for cities on the coast of the Black Sea basin, a management model for touristic routes is developed by providing opportunities both for the people to experience different tourism activities and the development of regional tourism.
Highlights
When we consider the tourism activities around the world, the fact that there is a great increase in both the number of passengers and the expenditures strengthens the idea that this situation will continue so even in the future (UNWTO, 2015)
While the increase in the number of visitors contributes to the economy in the region where tourism takes place, it raises the recognition of the socio-cultural structure and the environmental connections (Martin Martin, Guaita Martinez & Sanas Fernandez, 2018; Bogenç & Bekci, 2020b)
With this planning approach adopted in the study, a new cruise tourism route is planned in the Black Sea basin and an alternative tourism type is developed for the consumer
Summary
When we consider the tourism activities around the world, the fact that there is a great increase in both the number of passengers and the expenditures strengthens the idea that this situation will continue so even in the future (UNWTO, 2015). Majdoub (2010) defines the complexity of the cultural route (Yavuz, Acar & Zülfikar, 2019) as a geographical journey that passes through the local identity of a region besides the trip it creates in minds with values, senses, expectations, experiences, and the tourism products (Düzenli & Alpak, 2017). This meta system gathers up different regional systems according to the general system theory. Alternative tourism activities indicate that new cultural routes are needed for natural and cultural attraction centers (Steenjacobsen, 2010)
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