Gastronomy tourism is defined as a type of tourism that deals with the relationship between food and beverages and culture in the context of the local culinary culture. Local dishes, recipes, and culinary culture, which express the lifestyle of cities, are an important part of tourists' choice of destinations. According to many studies undertaken in recent years, tourists have seen an increase in the number of trips conducted to taste a cultural dish and to learn cooking techniques and cooking skills. In this study, the Trabzon (Turkey) and Podhale (Poland) regions were selected as a study area. These regions are characterised by unique, very interesting culture and art and, especially, folklore. The cuisines from Podhale and from the Trabzon region are equally attractive. The study was conducted on 151 people in Trabzon and 102 respondents in the Podhale region. The study revealed that only 15 out of 253 respondents had not heard about regional and traditional products. The authors analyzed whether people from different age groups had specific habits concerning the place of purchasing regional products in the analysed regions of Poland and Turkey. Regarding the question of whether the motivation to buy regional products was the same in households with a larger and smaller number of residents, it was found that only one correlation proved to be statistically significant: the correlation between household size and buying regional products because of their price.

The paper analyses the sustainable development of tourism in selected cities located in Turkey and in Poland. The starting point for the conducted research was the adoption of indicators used to assess the sustainable development of tourism in the cities of Amasya (Turkey) and Zakopane (Poland). Ultimately, the authors used slightly modified indicators developed by the Voluntary Initiative for Sustainability in Tourism (VISIT). The studies demonstrated that in Amasya the development of tourism is quite stable and revealed quite a lot of deficiencies in Zakopane. Sustainable development was assessed as poor in terms of environmental obligations, in particular waste water management solutions and municipal waste management as well as in terms of water consumption. The research revealed that some of the indicators were not recorded in central statistical offices, which hindered the assessment considerably. This refers mainly to indicators related to social and cultural considerations. In general, the results are rather surprising, as the analysis revealed significant differences in the development of technological infrastructure and land use intensity. Unfortunately, in these aspects, Zakopane seems to have lost the competition.

ABSTRACT:The purpose of this study, 2369 street furniture at the campus mentioned to the thesis study named "Generating a GIS-Based Campus Street Furniture Information System (YEDBIS): Example of Kanuni Campus -Karadeniz Technical University" are to question the harmony statuses of space form, actual activity in space, space size, natural materials used space, usage density of space, surface materials of space, users, and the other of them. The harmony statuses of the street furniture were fixed by observation works and field determinations at the campus. Findings obtained observations were recorded to identification cards by writing "0" value for disharmony, "1" value for partly harmony and "2" value for harmony. Then, the data were analyzed in YEDBIS, which is based on GIS. Then, the data were analyzed in YEDBIS, which is based on GIS, by using ArcMap 10.0 programme. However, due to the absence of web support generated for the YEDBIS, with current data querying and analysis of this data was carried out only in a computer where YEDBIS is located. The results of the analysis indicates that 2369 street furniture were found to be disharmony with space form, with surface materials of space, with natural materials used space and with other street furniture in space, and to be partly harmony actual activity in space, space size, usage density of space and users. Also, the regions and nearby around of the buildings at the campus where were disharmony, partly harmony and harmony of the street furniture were established by using YEDBIS.

Dünyada sanayi devrimi sonrasında teknolojinin gelişmesine bağlı olarak hızlı kentleşme hareketleri, nüfus artışı, insanların doğayı bilinçsiz kullanımı ve doğaya hâkim olma düşüncesi görülmüştür. Yaşanan bu olayların sonucunda, doğal peyzaj dokusu bozularak doğa ile uyumlu olmayan kültürel peyzajlar ortaya çıkmış ve çevre sorunları insan yaşamını tehdit edecek önemli boyutlara ulaşmıştır. İnsanların çevreye bakış açılarını değiştirmeleri için üniversite öğrencilerinin çevre eğitimi alıp bilinçlenmeleri daha güvenli bir gelecek sağlamak adına önemlidir. Bu çalışmada, Amasya Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Kentsel Tasarım ve Peyzaj Mimarlığı Bölümü lisans programında eğitim gören öğrencilerin çevre ile ilgili konularda farkındalık, bilinç ve duyarlılık seviyelerinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda birinci sınıf, ikinci sınıf, üçüncü sınıf ve dördüncü sınıf öğrencilerinden olmak üzere toplam 112 öğrenci ile yüz yüze anket çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Anket sorularına verilen cevapların frekans (yüzde) değerleri ve sorular arasındaki ilişkiler Ki-Kare testi ile SPSS 16.0 programı kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir Elde edilen bulgulara dayanılarak, öğrencilerin %84,3'ünün çevre ile ilgili konularda farkında, bilinçli ve duyarlı olduğu, %15,7'sinin ise farkında, bilinçli ve duyarlı olmadığı tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin üniversitede almış oldukları çevre içerikli dersler, öğrencilerin okudukları sınıf ile çevreye karşı olan farkındalık, bilinç ve duyarlılık seviyeleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir ilişki olduğunu göstermektedir. Öğrencilerin okudukları sınıf haricinde demografik ve sosyo-ekonomik özelliklerine bağlı olmaksızın çevre sorunlarının farkında olduğu ve gündelik yaşamlarındaki tutum ve davranış biçimleri ile çevreye duyarlı olduğu görülmektedir.

In the urban landscape, footbridges appeared along with the development of urbanization through the implementation of more complex spatial structures. The introduction of transport transit to cities or sometimes urban gravity towards the important communication routes imposed their construction in order to ensure pedestrians’ safety and smooth flow of traffic. The aim of the study is to determine how an overpass in the city of Trabzon is used by people of different ages, the security and motivation problem, the possibility of a footbridge, and how an overpass is perceived as a crossing over a highway. The study addresses the problem of safety and motivation related to the use of an overpass by people of different ages and is focused on the perception of an overpass as a crossing over a highway. The overpass connects the northern part of the city with the parking lot and the seaside boulevards in Trabzon. It has been constructed over the road no. D010, also known as the Black Sea Coastal Highway. In total, 124 members of the urban population who used the overpass participated in a questionnaire, which included multiple-choice and open-ended questions. The ‘Semantic Differential Scale’ was also used to evaluate the results. The research revealed that the respondents who chose the road through the overpass for safety in most cases used it relatively rarely (59%). People who used the footbridge every day or frequently marked safety as the reason in 39% of cases only. This means that as pedestrians use the overpass more often, they begin to notice other functional features of the footbridge. The results of the study showed that the overpass was most frequently used for the purpose of going down to the coast (76.0%), although 51.2% reported rarely using the overpass, which showed it was used very little by pedestrians.