Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Folklor, cilt.2015, sa.105, ss.87-98, 2015 (Scopus)
© 2015, Milli Folklor Dergisi. All rights reserved.culture together and is also based on tourist’s recognizing different cultures, discovering local and regional values, experiencing cultural practices in person. The most important feature of creative tourism is it’s turning local / rural tourism into a tourist attraction. Local resources dedicated to tourism allows tourists to benefit from natural environment, various cultural activities and cultural memory simultaneously. This situation shows that there are various relations between different types of tourism and folk culture in several contexts. In this context, there are differences between cultural tourism and creative tourism in the form of consuming space. The local which offers modern tourists who go after innovation, diversity, authenticity and experience these local cultural settings simultaneously and also in touch with nature has, in this respect, become the latest destination and center of attraction of new generation of postmodern tourism. Although traditional cultural tourism includes seeing, monitoring and watching, creative tourism is based on experiencing, active participation and learning. The important thing in such activity is to be able to feel pleasure that rising from authenticity. In this context, the all contents which reflect the cultural heritage and authenticity of the locality and offer nostalgic framework of meaning is explicitly in demand especially in this era. In general, in this study, it is tried to be evaluated with a critical perspective that, how creative tourism sector popularizes the ”local” by means of using folkloric products and practices which is referenced in order to go beyond the space and time, experience the authentic and mystical nostalgia even for a moment; or in order to open a window to the idealized world of utopianized past by escaping the only reality of being “here” and “now”.