DEFINITION, TYPES, SUSTAINABILTY AND RELATION OF TOURISM WITH ENVIRONMENT, LANDSCAPE PLANNING AND RECREATION

Abstract

Tourism can be defined to be the combination of events and relationships resulting from the travels and accommodation for temporary human activities lasting from at least two days to two years such as work, recreation, entertainment and sport. Sustainability is referred to the conservation and transfer of an existing thing to generation next in its present form. Sustainability concept in tourism is the evaluation of the sources used for tourism by considering this approach. Tourism has a very close relationship with the environment we live in by positively or negatively affecting it. In the present study, the concepts of tourism, tourism types and sustainable tourism are evaluated and relationships between tourism and environment, landscape planning and recreation.