Analysis of Bioclimatic Comfort Conditions with Tourism Comfort Index in Aydın Province

Abstract

In the past few decades, tourism has become one of the most important economic activities in many countries. In recent years, there has been a decrease in tourism activities worldwide due to both epidemic and war. In Particular, Tourists come to Turkey from cold countries in the summer months. In addition to epidemics and wars, increasing temperature due to global climate change also affects tourism activities. People want to continue their tourism activities in environments where they feel most comfortable in the face of this increasing temperature. The most important factor affecting human activities is bioclimatic comfort conditions. It is important to identify these conditions. Various indices have been developed for biocomfort conditions. In this study, it was used for the data which are the temperature, monthly average and maximum relative humidity (%), monthly average wind speed (km/hour), monthly average precipitation (mm) and monthly average sunshine duration (hours) data for the months of June, July and August 2021 in Aydın Province has been provided. The data were organized in excel environment. After the data were arranged, the TCI value of the meteorological observation stations in the study area was calculated with the most common Tourism Comfort Index (TCI) formula in calculating the tourism climate comfort. Meteorological observation stations and TCI values were imported into the open source QGIS software. TCI maps for the months of June, July and August were produced using the inverse distance-weighted interpolation method. It has been evaluated on these maps for Aydın Province tourism climate comfort.