A Literature Review on Museum Visitiors
Orhan Akova2017
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Abstract
As a component of tourism supply, museums have become one of the main attractions in destinations. Due to this, number of museum visitors and studies on museum visitor has increased day by day. The interest of relationship between tourism and museums has dramatically begun after 1990’s (Harrison, 1997). Nowadays, museums are accepted as a tool for development of urban tourism (Jansen-Andrbeke and van Rekom, 1996). It is estimated that every year more than one billion people visit museums (Falk, 2016). When evaluating studies on museum visitors, it is clearly understood that researchers are from various fields such as arts, museum management, tourism and education.
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