First, uncontrolled hotel construction has emerged on
the coastal areas. To Alipour (1996) and Brotherton and
Himmetoglu (1997, p. 77), &these tourism facility developments
in the prime Aegean and Mediterranean coastal
regions took place to a large extent in a haphazard way'.
Although physical land-use planning and development
guidelines were prepared for these regions (Southwest
Turkey Touristic Investment Areas) by the Ministry of
Tourism, implementation of these guidelines have not
been controlled. Moreover, it is stated that &Even if they
are operating in the o$cial economy, Turkish businessmen
specialise in getting round the rules' (The Economist,
1996, p. 13). This implies that unless there is a strong
control mechanism, implementation of the land-use
planning regulations will be ignored easily by private
entrepreneurs.