Evaluation of E-Comments Regarding ‘Yedi Bilgeler’ as The First Friends of Cittaslow Business in Turkey Cover Image

Türkiye’deki İlk Cittaslow Dostu İşletme Olan "Yedi Bilgeler"e Yönelik E-Yorumların Değerlendirilmesi
Evaluation of E-Comments Regarding ‘Yedi Bilgeler’ as The First Friends of Cittaslow Business in Turkey

Author(s): Füsun İSTANBULLU DİNÇER, Özlem TAŞKIRAN, Merve Aydoğan Çifçi
Subject(s): Tourism, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Gazi Üniversitesi- Turizm Fakültesi
Keywords: Cittaslow; Friends of Cittaslow;Tripadvisor;

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, changes in consumption habits, demand for natural products and more slower and enjoyable life approach support the development of sustainable projects and practices. Consequently, concepts of “slow food” and “cittaslow” have been arised. Cittaslow movement has been founded as a unity that people are in contact with each other; social, sustainable; protecting nature, culture and handcrafts; without having infrastructure problem; using renewable energy resources; evaluating the cities which take advantage of technological facilities. Today, 235 cities from 30 different countries are the member of this unity. In this study, the user comments in tripadvisor.com of “Yedi Bilgeler Hotel and Winehouse”, the first and only “Friend of Cittaslow” in Turkey, which has adopted cittaslow movement’s philosophy and have been operated according to its principles have been analysed. The purpose of the study is to examine on which subjects users comment most and whether these comments are relevant to cittaslow and its principles or not. Content analysis method is used and the user’s comments related to the hotel categorized into 6 title. It has been observed that the most comments were made in the category of “Food and Beverage”.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 1-9
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Turkish