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Bridging eastern and non-eastern Turkey: A study on the effectiveness of a tourism-based intervention
International Journal of Intercultural Relations · Temmuz 2021
YÖKSİS Kayıtları
Bridging eastern and non-eastern Turkey: A study on the effectiveness of a tourism-based intervention
International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2021 SSCI
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Bridging eastern and non-eastern Turkey: A study on the effectiveness of a tourism-based intervention
International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2021 SSCI
DOKTOR ÖĞRETİM ÜYESİ EMİNE YÜCEL →
Makale Bilgileri
DergiInternational Journal of Intercultural Relations
Yayın TarihiTemmuz 2021
Cilt / Sayfa83 · 84-97
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85110350346
Özet
Living in eastern versus non-eastern Turkey reflects not merely a geographical distinction but, instead, indicates the deep sociocultural disaffection between easterners and non-easterners. To address this polarity, “We are Anatolia” [Biz Anadoluyuz] is designed as a four-day tourism-based intervention to improve the attitudes of adolescents from eastern and non-eastern Turkey towards one other. In this project, easterners visit a non-eastern city; non-easterners, an eastern one. The visitors’ tourist experiences are enriched by ensuring pre-programmed direct contact activities with inhabitants of the host city in recreational settings and by increasing the salience of common ingroup identity between visitors and hosts. The present study (N = 1043) evaluated the effectiveness of this project through a pre- and post-test design with a control group. The visitors’ contact intentions, psychological closeness, and warmth towards the inhabitants of the host city were assessed at the first (T1) and last days of the trips (T2), as well as three months later (T3). Except for contact intentions, participants (especially non-easterners) showed a positive change from T1 to T2 and preserved that improvement in T3. However, the intervention-related changes demonstrated only small effect sizes; moreover, no difference existed between the treatment and control groups regarding their short-term gains. We discuss the potential of tourism for societal peace.
Yazarlar (3)
1
Emine Yücel
ORCID: 0000-0003-3663-6003
2
Hatice Ekici
ORCID: 0000-0002-8032-9708
3
Hatice Öztürk
ORCID: 0000-0002-4982-3257
Anahtar Kelimeler
Common ingroup identity
Direct contact
Eastern Turkey
“The east”
Tourism-based intervention
Tourism-related contact for prejudice reduction
Kurumlar
Aksaray Üniversitesi
Aksaray Turkey
İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi
Izmir Turkey
Selçuk Üniversitesi
Selçuklu Turkey
Metrikler
2
Atıf
3
Yazar
6
Anahtar Kelime