AWARENESS OF FAITH BASED INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE CASE OF SILLE/KONYA
KONYA’DA İNANÇ TEMELLİ SOYUT KÜLTÜREL MİRASIN FARKINDALIĞI: (KONYA SİLLE’DE BİR ARAŞTIRMA)

Author : Özlem Tekin -- İbrahim Hakkı KAYNAK
Number of pages : 172-183

Abstract

Efforts to diversify touristic products are increasing in accordance with the changing demands of tourist demands. Intangible cultural heritage draws attention within the scope of tourist values that differentiate the tour programs. From the assumption that destinations can improve the quality of products offered to the world tourism market via investigating the cultural heritage; it is foreseen that this study can be a basis for the forthcoming works. It is aimed to investigate on detection and awareness of intangible cultural heritage in faith tourism destination Konya, hosted many different civilizations. Research datas have been collected from literature review and in-depth interview which one of the qualitative research methods. As a result of the research, it is seen in the data obtained from the participants who were originally from Sille and selected from different age groups that there is a tradition that can be defined as the spiritual belief has been ifluenced by the Christianity on a very small scale. These data were commented in the results section.

Keywords

Faith Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sille, Konya.

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