Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
Editors: Prof. Mike Robinson (Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University) and Dr Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)
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Volume: 2 Number: 1 Page: 24–45
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Complexity of Socio-spatial Transformations Through Tourism: A Mediterranean Village, Kaleky
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Emine Onaran Incirlioglu and Gaye Çulcuoglu
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This article reflects on the complex consequences of tourism development in the isolated Mediterranean village of Kaleko¨y. Built on the antique city of Simena of the 4th century BC and having remnants also from Hellenistic, Byzantine and Ottoman periods, Kaleky's main source
of livelihood since the 1980s has been tourism. Multiple changes that take place simultaneously at the local level, in relation to or as a consequence of tourism, are conceptualised as interrelated transformations that may fall under the four major headings of economy, demography, spatial
organisation and cognition. Defining culture as 'everything learned', these transformations amount to a radical change in the local culture, which now includes a culture of tourism. Based on ethnographic research, the article aims to demonstrate the complexity of changes in physical, as well
as economic and social structures as they pertain to tourism.
Keywords: TOURISM DEVELOPMENT, SPATIAL ORGANISATION, SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE, COGNITION
© 2004 Channel View Publications
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