Advances in Agriculture and Agricultural Sciences

Advances in Agriculture and Agricultural Sciences ISSN 2381-3911 Vol. 6 (4), pp. 001-011, April, 2020. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Land use planning regarding sustainable development through agritourism: Şarköy example

Tuğba Kiper

Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, Namık Kemal University, Tekirdağ/Turkey. E-mail: [email protected].

Accepted 23 August, 2019

Abstract

In rural areas, where agricultural tourism activities are not dense but having apparent potential, in order to provide sustainable development, it is necessary to maintain a rational and protective planning process. With this point, firstly, landscape potential of a field should be determined, while the activities which can be performed and the implementation areas regarding this potential should be determined. This is because planning decisions made without considering conservation-use balance and providing daily solutions would damage unique sources of the rural areas in an irrecoverable way. At this stage, analysis studies performed to determine land use feasibility are important. Within this scope, this study aims to reveal the capacity of the field, actively regarding sustainable agritourism of Şarköy, which has importance with its variety of agricultural products, the values of natural and cultural resources and its social structure in the Thracian Region. In this research, a trial is made to answer questions such as: “at which level subjects regarding agricultural activities are convenient?” and “what should be done to develop agritourism activities?” Parallel to this, firstly, through forming a database by processing the natural and cultural characteristics of the research field in geographical information system (GIS) environment, evaluation factors regarding use of agritourism (viticulture and olive cultivation) and convenient coefficients were ranked according to their importance. The convenience values obtained were questioned and convenience maps were made and the local people’s recommendations were developed within the dimensions of local people and participation. The results obtained in this research will be guiding both the local people and local administrations in the decisions of planning made about agritourism subject and in the implementation phase.

Key words: Agritourism, land use planning, sustainable development, Şarköy/Turkey.