Promotion of Rural Tourism in Turkey Within The Scope of European Union Policies

Abstract

Concept of rural tourism has recently become prominent in our country and European Union member states. With a decision to promote
rural development, union started to allocate funds to the rural tourism policies. Various projects are developed in the EU countries and practices
of benefiting from these grant funds and supporting the rural tourism destinations have started to gain success. In this regard, concept of rural tourism was mentioned in the study, EU rural tourism policies and contents of these policies were addressed, then rural tourism practices of some EU member states were mentioned. Successful projects were given as examples within the scope of EU rural tourism and finally, recommendations were presented as regards to what should be done in Turkey by talking about promotion of rural
tourism in Turkey within the scope of EU policies and the samples