National Parks: The determinants of visitors satisfaction in Turkey

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Pinar Sivalioglu
Lale Berkoz

Abstract

Environmental and natural preservation have become a common problem for all the societies of this century. User satisfaction is a concept that lies at the heart of various sectors and work areas today. Place attachment is another concept that has been covered in many research studies conducted until today. Place attachment closely related with satisfaction and includes symbolic and emotional expressions. This paper has been prepared for the purpose of measuring place related satisfaction and attachment of the national park visitors


Keywords: Place attachment; Satisfaction; National park.


eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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Sivalioglu, P. and Berkoz, L. 2018. National Parks: The determinants of visitors satisfaction in Turkey. Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies. 3, 9 (Jun. 2018), 85–93. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v3i9.301.

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