Tourism policies, architecture and sustainable development in the mediterranean region of turkey

Tourism activities which are based on environmental preservation are defined with the concept of sustainable development for tourism. While tourism industry have relations with natural and man made environments on the other hand these types of environments would have an accelerating deterioration when density of environment used over the limits. This study aims to examine the relations between tourism policies, architecture, planning and sustainable development. The relations between these elements in the context of sustainable tourism development have been evaluated for the Mediterranean Region of Turkey. The methodology used in this article covers the evaluation of selected tourism facilities with comparing to socio-cultural and physical environmental characteristics. This methodology also depends on the evaluation of examples selected from touristic facilities of Mediterranean which presented soft architecture like organic approaches, contextual approaches. These types of architectural approaches will result as sustainable development in touristic environment since carrying capacity and other important conservation issues solved by these approaches.