(Routledge, 2004) Incirlioğlu, E. O.; Çulcuoğlu, G.
This article reflects on the complex consequences of tourism development in the isolated Mediterranean village of Kaleko¨y. Built on the antique city of Simena of the
4th century BC and having remnants also from Hellenistic, Byzantine and Ottoman
periods, Kaleko¨y’s main source of livelihood since the 1980s has been tourism. Multiple changes that take place simultaneously at the local level, in relation to or as a
consequence of tourism, are conceptualised as interrelated transformations that
may fall under the four major headings of economy, demography, spatial organisation and cognition. Defining culture as ‘everything learned’, these transformations
amount to a radical change in the local culture, which now includes a culture of tourism. Based on ethnographic research, the article aims to demonstrate the complexity
of changes in physical, as well as economic and social structures as they pertain to
tourism.
