查看文章

Because rural life and rural values that become important again in recent years, it has been quite necessary to examine the development of rural by the conceptual sense. Both the world and Turkey hosts qualitatively and quantitatively important rural areas that worth conceptual and practical examining. The scope of this paper contains a comprehensive review of literature on academic research in this field of research and this paper aims to be effective in realization of rural tourism development. In this study, it was aimed to reveal the characteristics of national and international academic studies on rural tourism in a general point of view. In the literature review, more than 400 national and international academic studies were accessed. The study was carried out during the first four months of the year 2016 in reviewable scientific resources by utilizing the scientific resources published in Turkey and abroad. As the result of this conducted study, it was observed that the history of academic studies on rural tourism dates back to twenty years approximately. The studies which were not frequent in the beginning, showed increase as the rural tourism started to become popular. Although nature and rural elements are one of the main factors of tourism sector, it can be evaluated as a considerable deficiency of tourism literature that the studies in this type of tourism has only increased in recent years. It was remarkable in the reports that general topics were handled in terms of conceptual aspect, however, a tendency towards specific topics were as well observed in recent years. When theses of the literature are reviewed, it was seen that national theses are …