Arap Turistlerin Türklere Yönelik Önyargılarının Değerlendirilmesi: Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi Örneği
Assessments of the Prejudices of the Arab Tourists Against Turks: An Example of Eastern Black Sea Region

Summary/Abstract: Tourism prepares the environment for cross-cultural interaction processes. This situation made it necessary to examine the attitudes of different nationalities towards each other. In the interaction process of the tourists, because they develop an attitude by ignoring the cultural differences, a threat perceive happens for both sides. The perceived threats which contains integrated threat theory is composed of four threats such as real threats, symbolic threats, wrong judices, cross-group anxiety. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the prejudice of the tourists coming from the Arab countries to the Eastern Black Sea Region within the framework of “Integrated Threat Theory”. In accordance with this purpose; a survey was conducted on 410 Arab tourists visiting the Eastern Black Sea Region in April-June 2019. As a result of the research; it was determined that the majority of Arab tourists did not hesitate to communicate with the Turks and that the Turks did not have similar attitudes. Moreover; it was concluded that the integrated threats perceived by Arab tourists during their visit to the Eastern Black Sea Region caused prejudice against the Turks. Consequently, for Arab tourists; it was found that there is a significant, positive and moderate relationship between the perception of real threats, symbolic threats, wrong judices, cross-group anxiety, integrated threats and their prejudice against Turks

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