A General Overview of Tourism Clusters

Having been one of most significant strategical tools around the world, clustering activites have increasingly been prominent in terms of regional tourism development. Tourism clusters differ from other industrial clusters. Whereas customers cannot observe the actors within the most industrial clusters that are suppliers, sellers, agencies, logistic firms, etc., which is not the case in tourism clusters: customers (tourists) are engaged in a number of actors until they consume tourism services and products. These study analyses how clusters are classified. A view about classification of clusters according to their success and their labelling criteria are presented. There is also information about certain tourism regions in cluster maps. This study seeks to reveal the characteristics of tourism clusters by studying certain tourism cluster examples. The study furtherly aims to form a general framework related to tourism clusters with the help of significant tourism clusters.