Cultural ecosystem services contribution on tourism in Anatolia: a review

ABSTRACTCultural ecosystem services (CES), which includes many components regarding humans, and is defined as benefits and services that ecosystems provide to humanity. Tourism experiences provide a unique opportunity for people and tourism interactions influence human well-being. This study evaluates CES studies made for Anatolia between 2017–2022. This review study sought answers to four questions: (i) What is the number and content of CES studies? (ii) What are the methodological studies, on which occupational disciplines they focus? (iii) Are the CES studies for the Anatolia sufficient for tourism management? (iv) What are the gaps, benefits and deficiencies in CES and in Anatolia tourism? The results are expected to shed light on future studies regarding the CES and tourism for Anatolia.KEYWORDS: Ecosystem servicescultural ecosystem servicesrecreationtourismAnatolia Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementData has been obtained from Dergipark, TUBİTAK Ulakbim database and Scopus®.Additional informationNotes on contributorsBetül TülekBetül Tülek holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture from the Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey. She is an Associate Professor at the Çankırı Karatekin University. She develops her research activities in the field of landscape design, landscape planning, ecosystem services, cultural ecosystem services, cultural heritage. She has several publications on the landscape architecture field (ORCID: 0000-0002-6584-041X).