The book prepared by Öğr. Gör. Dr. Uğur Tozkoparan using some sections of his doctoral thesis titled '"Cultural Tourism in Burdur Province: Attractive Factors and Obstacles" was published by Aktif Yayınevi.

The book prepared by our school's Deputy Principal Öğr. Gör. Dr. Uğur Tozkoparan, utilizing sections from his doctoral thesis titled "Cultural Tourism in Burdur Province: Attractive Factors and Obstacles," has been published by Aktif Publishing House. We congratulate our teacher and hope that his book contributes to the subfield of Tourism Geography, Tourist Guidance, our Burdur province, our students, colleagues, and the scientific community. We wish it many readers.

The Spatial Pattern of Cultural Tourism in Burdur Province has been prepared with the aim of documenting the unique natural and cultural heritage values of Burdur province in their current state and introducing these unique heritage elements to cultural tourism, thereby contributing to both rural development and the preservation of cultural values. In this work, prepared based on the cultural heritage richness of Burdur province, the concepts of culture, cultural tourism, and cultural route are discussed, and the development of cultural tourism in the world, in our country, and in Burdur province is addressed; the impact of the province's physical and human geography features on tourism activities is mentioned. Additionally, in order to encourage the development of cultural tourism in Burdur province, the work includes cultural route suggestions encompassing the province's natural and cultural heritage values.