1. EXAMINATION OF PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS MEVLANA MUSEUM WITHIN THE SCOPE OF FAITH TOURISM WITH METAPHOR ANALYSIS.
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ŞALVARCI, Simge and SARI GÖK, Hatice
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PSYCHOLOGY of students , *RELIGIOUS tourism , *HERITAGE tourism , *QUALITATIVE research , *CULTURAL values - Abstract
In order to make tourism and cultural heritage sustainable, regions need to benefit from their unique cultural and belief values. One of the types of tourism that has rapidly increased in importance in recent years and has a significant contribution to the promotion of countries is religious tourism. There are many important centers in terms of religious tourism in Turkey. One of these centers is the Mevlana Museum in Konya, which is among the most visited museums in Turkey. It is important for the museum to be used more effectively, to be more useful, and to contribute to both Konya and Turkey tourism. The aim of this research is to determine tourism students' perceptions of the Mevlana Museum in Konya, in the context of religious tourism, through metaphors. In order to achieve this aim, the study examined the conceptual themes under which the metaphors for the Mevlana Museum were collected regarding the subject of religious tourism. In this study, content analysis, one of the data evaluation methods used in qualitative research in social sciences, was used. The research participants consisted of 125 tourism students. According to the research results, individuals' religious tourism metaphors were divided into four categories: psychological reasons, the spiritual effect of the museum, religious places and structures, and others. According to the research results, it was determined that tourism students developed many metaphors about the Mevlana Museum in Konya in the context of religious tourism and had a broad perspective on the Mevlana Museum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024