Şimşek Evren, Emine; Evren, Savaş; Çakıcı, Abdulcelil

Novelty seeking is one of most important subjects in terms of understanding of tourist motivations and behaviors. In the literature review, it has been observed that the subject of novelty seeking is evaluated in terms of some other types of tourists. However, it is not evaluated in terms of cultural tourists whose one of the main motivations is the novelty seeking. At this point the main purpose of this study is to determine novelty seeking levels of domestic cultural tourists, and to ascertain destination choice differences between cultural tourist clusters with different novelty seeking levels. In this context, the novelty seeking scale developed by Assaker et al., (2011, 2013, 2014) was applied to measure novelty seeking levels of participants, and the survey was conducted on the sample of academician cultural tourists. Data collection activities were conducted online in May 2018, and 563 people were reached as sampling. Descriptive analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis and ANOVA were applied to the data gathered. Results revealed that the novelty seeking scale has two-dimensional structure, and academician cultural tourist have very high level of novelty seeking tendency. Moreover, it is determined that academician cultural tourist could be clustered as medium, high and very high novelty seekers, and there are differences between these clusters especially in terms of foreign destination choice.

Çakıcı, Abdulcelil; Evren, Savaş; Evren, Emine Şimşek; Çakır, Onur

This study was carried out in order to reveal a criticism about the phenomenon of sustainable tourism. In this context, by reviewing the existing literature, the studies conducted on sustainable tourism criticisms were collected. Then, the criticism points revealed in these studies were determined with the method of systematical literature review, and based on these criticism points the main criticism dimensions of sustainable tourism were identified. In this context, it has been understood that there are five dimensions regarding to sustainable tourism criticisms. These dimensions are hypocrisy, vagueness/ambiguity, delusions, theory-practice inconsistency and inadequacy of literature. In this context, the hypocrisies in current practice, conceptual and semantic ambiguities, the delusions that shift people's focus in different directions, the inconsistencies that arise from the inability of the theories to adapt to practice and the missing aspects of the literature have been evaluated. Using sustainability only as a marketing tool, ambiguity of what is to be sustained, industry's misdirecting with sustainable discourses, theories that do not turn into practice, and vicious circles in examined themes despite the growth in number of studies were identified as main criticisms.