Analyzing of Local Residents’s Festival Tourism Perception According To Some Demographic Characteristics: The Case of Isparta

Abstract

While festivals are considered as one of the most important touristic activities among city tourism activities, they are considered as a type of tourism today. In this result, the positive socio-economic and cultural effects created by festivals and its contributions to the city image have a great effect. However, festivals have negative effects as well as positive effects. All the effects of the festivals concern the local people the most. Indeed, the focal point of the festivals is the local people. In this study, the perceptions of the local people about the festivals held in Isparta were investigated. The study is a quantitative research. The data of the study were collected by questionnaire technique. 387 people answered the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, reliability analysis and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used in the analyzes of research. As a result, urban pride perception according to age, job, year of residence and education level; It has been revealed that the perception of negative effects differs according to the profession and the year of residence. In other dimensions, no difference was detected according to demographic variables..