“…Besides winter tourism, historical buildings (such as museums, castles, mosques, churches, chapels, bastions, inns, fountains, historical baths) and natural attractions (mountains, valleys, geological structures, rivers, waterfalls, lake, fairy chimneys, fauna and floras) that have the potential of natural and cultural tourism are spread throughout the province. Thus, Erzurum has suitable environmental conditions for performing numerous tourism activities such as nature, ecotourism, thermal tourism, rural tourism, specialty tourism, adventure tourism, cultural tourism and mass tourism (Kaymaz et al, 2017 ; Zaman et al, 2018 ). The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism's statistics shows that 434.433 local and foreign people accommodated in the municipality certified accommodation facilities and 186.496 people accommodated in the accommodation facilities with tourism business licenses.…”