ıl 2004
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GIS BASED INVENTORY OF MARINAS ON THE
COASTAL REGION OF TURKEY
A. E. Kalemdaroglu 4% D. Z. Seker“, S. Kabdasli “
“ITU, Istanbul Technical University, Civil Engineering Faculty 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey -
evrimkalemdaroglu@yahoo.com, seker@itu.edu.tr, skabdasli@ins.itu.edu.tr
KEY WORDS: GIS, Inventory, Analysis, Temporal, Data, Design
ABSTRACT:
GIS is widely used in marine sciences since last decade. Through the Geographical Information systems, it is possible to synthesize
all data about marinas for comprehensive interpretation and forecasting of marine environmental systems. In marine sciences, the
simultaneous analysis of data sets can be combined within a GIS. In this study, it has been aimed to constitute inventory of marinas
on the coastal regions of Turkey by means of GIS. The graphic data which includes borders of counties on the coastal regions of
Turkey have been obtained from standard topographic maps. Data design has been established for attribute data includes general
information about marinas as coordinates, location, the name of marina, etc. and service opportunities given to yachtmen as forecast,
rent a car, laundry, etc. Attributes data of marinas have been obtained from different sources such as internet, information forms,
advertisement brochures, puplications of goverenment associations, etc. Various analysis have been carried out about marinas of
Gocek Bay. In this temporal analysis it is indicated a significant parallelism between the augmentation of yacht number and total
coliform values.
1. INTRODUCTION
Tourism has very important positive effects on developed and
under developing countries in view of economical, political,
cultural and social lives. Marine tourism takes a great share in
the general tourism activities. Turkey has an enormous Marine
Tourism potential depending on it’s climate, coasts and
historical places. Although the absence of infrastructure and the
delayed legislation, marine tourism has to be continue to
developed itself in Turkey. Yatching tourism is being a part of
marine tourism.
Developed contries in tourism such as Spain, Italy, covered
their coasts with massive concrete structures like hotels. Since
communication and travel possibilities is getting better day by
day The World is getting smaller. And depend on this stuation,
tourists began to tend to go farer countries. Therefore, Turkey
should be extremely careful not to repeat the same mistakes
other countries have inevitably done before (Dogan, 1990).
Yacht Tourism in Turkey began to develop at the beginning of
1980's years. One of the important reason of this movement is
unspoilt Turkish nature. Fishermen had been began yacht
tourism with spongers boats without any comfort later it is
symbolized as Blue Voyage. At the beginnig these journeys was
done with small fishing boats. The encourangement of yacht
construction and management are accelarated the development
of yacht tourism. The numbers of mooring capacity on land and
sea for marinas have the certificates of tourism investment and
tourism administration was about 10.600 in 2001 (DTO, 2002).
2. YACHT TOURISM
In the recent years not only tourism in the world has been
growing rapidly but it has also getting assorted. Yacht tourism
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is the one of these types of tourism. The demand for yaching is
increasing because of its features : it satisfies the feelings of
freedom, being close to nature and history, sports and
adventure, exploration. Yacht Tourism means the type of
tourism which consist of ‘yacht management’, ‘Yachter’, ‘yacht
manufacture” and ‘Yacht harbour'.
Yacht tourism is composed of private yaching and resting of
yachts by groups. Private yachts’ owners are both local owners
and cruiser owners. Local owners moor their own yachts in
nearest marina and sail at weekends. Cruiser owners have more
convenient time to sail and cruise. Generally they give months
to cruise in foreign seas and leave yachts in a marina so as to
park for winter. Other groups of yacht tourists are charterers.
They rent a yacht or a cabin for certain time from Yacht Charter
Agencies.
2.1 World Yacht Tourism
There are two important cruising areas in the world : The
Caribbean Sea and The Mediterranean Sea. They both of them
have convenient winds to sail, climate, rich natural and cultural
beauties, etc. But they are not competitor to each other because
of distance between them and season order.
The Mediterranean Sea is very much suitable for yaching, both
because of climate and winds convenient to sail, its natural
small bays and different cultures and history of surrounding
countries.
Coast of Spain, France, Italy in the west Mediterranean and
marinas on these coast, are just about to lose their quality. The
increasing amount of pollution at coasts this side of the
Mediterranean, the price of marinas which have risen
astronomiccally, have dissuaded yachtmen from western
Mediterranean. As a result of this situation, in recent years,
