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Sustainable education has the target of improving skills that encourage students or life-long learners to reflect on actions realized by themselves. Its main concern is considering their actual and future cultural, socio-economic, and environmental impacts. Such a paradigm to evaluate these impacts is to bring about a local and a global perspective. Sustainability, as a means of qualified education, is a consequence of lifelong learning philosophy. All levels and all kinds of education should deal with the issues of sustainability and create holistic and transformational skills in this topic. In this context, pedagogy and learning environment is of great importance. Concerning learning environment, mobbing cases have frequently coincided in educational organizations. Mobbing has been regarded as an important business disease of contemporary work-life. Besides, mobbing might be coincided not only in the businesses but also in the organizations providing educational services. In schools and universities, mobbing leads to physiological, sociological, and psychological harms for the students. Recent studies have shown that in the school environment, students are exposed to a possible mobbing behavior and that their academic performance and achievement, as well as their mental and physical health, are negatively influenced. In addition, many academic studies indicate that the personality traits students have are an important predictor of exposure to mobbing and depression. This study aimed to determine the levels of mobbing and depression perceptions of students (type A, type B) who are studying tourism education at undergraduate level. In this context, within the groups of personality traits, the levels of depression in the process of mobbing were examined. Research data were collected from 524 students surveyed in a tourism faculty of a state university. In order to realize the data collection, Personality Traits, Mobbing, and Depression scales were used. Correlation, t-test, and regression analysis were performed as well as descriptive statistics (frequencies, mean, and standard deviation) in the process of data analysis. As a consequence of the research, it was determined that mobbing influenced psychological conditions of all students showing the features of A and B type as personality traits. Nevertheless, mobbing and depression perceptions differ upon their personality groups. It was found that the mean scores of mobbing and depression perceptions of students’ having A type personality traits were comparatively higher than the ones having B type personality traits. In addition, it has been revealed that there is a positive relationship between mobbing and depression perceptions of students. Mobbing explained 14% of the change in the depression levels of the students. As a result of the findings, it was determined that personality trait is an important and significant factor in the impact levels of students from mobbing and depression. Incorporation of personality traits into the transformational learning process in the education system as well as teaching and supporting of students with applied social education can be an effective element of sustainable education.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perceptions of tourism-related non-governmental organization (NGO) managers on overtourism trends in Antalya, Turkey. Design/methodology/approach Focus group study was implemented and three focus group interviews were undertaken with 34 NGO managers in total as a sample. The population of the research consisted of 65 tourism-related NGO managers in Antalya. Findings The results of the research reveal that Antalya was perceived as neither in a tourism development stage nor afflicted by overtourism by NGO managers. NGOs are one of the major stakeholders in the tourism industry, and hence their perceptions of overtourism would probably be the stimulating force for further sustainable development in the destination. Research limitations/implications The limitation is that the research was realized voluntarily by 34 NGOs in Antalya. It would have been better to have more volunteer respondents. Practical implications The viewpoints of stakeholders about their perceptions of tourism development in Antalya would be a helpful next step to refer back to practitioners so as to develop further strategic plans from their perspectives. Social implications As social exchange theory states, communities benefiting from tourism development will support further improvement in tourism. Hence, in their role as spokespersons for the community, the perceptions of NGOs will influence decision-makers to draw implications from the study for wider consideration. Originality/value As a consequence, a model was proposed according to the results of the research. The findings of the research paper highlight the evolution of high-flow tourism in the destination.

Savaş olgusu insanlık tarihi kadar eskidir. Geçmişte yıkımların ve milyonlarca insanın ölümünün gerçekleştiği savaş alanlarının bazıları günümüzde birer turistik çekiciliğe dönüşmüştür. Bu alanlara, literatürde savaş alanları turizmi olarak adlandırılan bir turizm hareketi mevcuttur. Kültürel miras turizminin bir alt boyutu olarak savaş alanları turizmi, ölüm ile fiili ya da simgesel karşılaşmalar için bir yere tamamen ya da kısmi olarak seyahat etme isteği ile güdülenen ölüm turizmi (thanatourism) ya da karanlık turizm (darktourism) tanımlaması içerisinde yer alan bir turizm olgusudur. Bu olgu sadece savaş alanlarına gerçekleştirilen turizm hareketlerinden ibaret değildir. Aynı zamanda anma etkinlikleri kapsamında askeri şehitlikler, anıt ve abidelere gerçekleştirilen ziyaretler de bu turizm türünün bir şekli olarak değerlendirilebilmektedir. Bu bağlamda, araştırma Türkiye'deki savaş anıtlarına odaklanmaktadır. Araştırmada öncelikle Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı'ndan tescilli 353 anıtın listesi elde edilmiştir. İkincil olarak bu anıtlara ilişkin nicel ve nitel veriler QGis coğrafi bilgi sistemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Araştırmanın amacı elde edilen sonuçların Türkiye'de bu niş turizm pazarın gelişmesine yardımcı olmasıdır.