The Evaluation of the Recreation Potential of Dalyan Destination within the Tourism Product Diversification

The different stress sources such as intense working tempo, increasing usage of technology, adverse living conditions, population crowd, noise and environmental pollution, artificial human relationsh ips causes physical and emotional frazzles on humans. At this point people start to turn though the nature as they start to see the recreational activities as a necessity to protect themselves against the physical and emotional frazzles. So the places that host the recreation areas connected to the nature, water, watching and sports should be organized though the availability usage of the locals and tourists at the highest level. In this context, the aim of this study is to identify the recreational potenti al of Dalyan destination. To determine the potential of the recreation area of Dalyan, the method developed by Gülez (1990) in accordance with the conditions of our country that supply the opportunity to analyze the potential of the in forest and outdoor r ecreational potential. In the study, the data taken from the interviews with Koycegiz Governorship, Koycegiz Governorship, Ortaca Municipality, Dalyan Tourism Information Bureau, Koycegiz Forestry Administration, Dalaman Meteorological Department and the s econdary data sources were used. The findings obtained from the analysis, the recreation potential of Dalyan have been identified according to the landscape value, the climate value, accessibility value, recreation conveniences value and negative factors v alue criteria