The above discussion and author participant observation
suggest that tourism development in prime local
tourist destinations has brought powerful and organised
business interests into the powerless, unorganised indigenous
communities. In the course of time, the business
interests have become dominant power holders and served
theirself-inter est at the expense of indigenous people
who live on the margin of their felt-needs. This seems to
be largely due to &the formation of local government in
Turkey [that] has been initiated by the state, re#ecting
administrative and "scal concerns of the centre, and has
not been a source of democratic citizen participation in
a public space' (Koker, 1995, p. 61). In this regard,
tourism development appears to have ignored intra-generation
equity by catering for tourists and tourism entrepreneurs'
needs at the expense of indigenous local people.
It should be kept in mind that transferring public resources
to tourism investors via the noted generous
tourism incentives has accelerated this process. In brief,
tourism continues to be driven by central government