TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Study on the Satisfaction Level of Tourists with Turkish Cuisine
AU - Cekal, Nurten AU - Ozcelik, A. Ozfer AU - Surucuoglu, M. Saip 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 5
SP  - 494
EP  - 499
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2013.494.499
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2013.494.499
KW  - Turkish cuisine
KW  -tourist
KW  -tourism
KW  -meat
KW  -green
KW  -beans
AB  - Indispensable part of tourism activities in the country, Turkish 
  cuisine is among the biggest cuisines of the world together with French and 
  Chinese cuisines. Turkish cuisine has been developed and enriched with the contributions 
  of many different civilizations inhabiting the Turkish land. The Turkish cuisine 
  has been affected by Western cuisines but it has also affected them. The present 
  study was carried out on 138 foreign tourists visiting Alanya in July. The sample 
  of the study consists of 4 four-star hotels in Alanya. While, selecting the 
  hotel organizations to be included in the study factors, such as the owners’ 
  willingness to participate and environment comfortable enough for the researcher 
  to work effectively and accessibility to the hotel organizations were taken 
  into consideration. The tourists stated that when they came to Turkey on holiday, 
  they preferred Turkish foods (52.9%), they preferred their own countries’ 
  foods (25.4%) and they preferred both Turkish foods and their own countries’ 
  foods (19.6%), only 2.2% of them stated that they preferred the foods of countries 
  other than Turkey and their own country. The most liked foods by the tourists 
  are yoghurt-soup among the soups, shish kebab among the meat dishes and dry 
  bean dish with meat among the legumes, green beans among vegetable dishes prepared 
  with meat, stuffed paper with olive oil among stuffed dishes, pilaf with rice 
  among pilaffs, water heurek among pastry, potato salad among the salads, rice 
  pudding among the desserts and lemonade among beverages. The tourists were asked 
  whether they would recommend Turkish foods to other people when they went back 
  to their countries. The 68.1% of them stated that they would recommend and 31.9% 
  stated that they would not.
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