Nomadic Tourism and Assessment of Tourism Potential of Nomadic Culture

Nomads are groups of people that make a living from breeding, regularly move to different places to better feed their livestock, have a kinship between their members, and live in small communities. Their lifestyle and culture are based on breeding. One of the civilizations with nomadic culture is Turks. When Turkish people migrated from Central Asia to the Anatolia, they introduced the nomadic culture to those lands. Nomadic life, which is the main building block of Anatolian culture, is decreasing because of modern technological progress, settlement policies, security reasons and especially economic reasons. It is important to provide additional income to nomads for nomadic culture to sustain. Anatolian nomadic culture offers touristic products, with its authentic elements and historical links to Silk Road To that end, first the touristic values of nomadic culture should be explored. This study examines the potential use of crafts, sports and nomadic cuisine, which are among nomadic life elements, as a product in tourism as well as the concept of Nomadic Tourism from the perspective of tourism