Bana Katedrali ve Özelinde Şenkaya İlçesinin Mimari Miras Turizmi Potansiyeli

Our country is home to many cultural heritage elements due to its geographical location. Şenkaya district, which is the subject of the study, is a region that has witnessed many struggles and different administrations throughout history due to its location at the intersection of trade routes in the north-east of Erzurum. The region contains mostly architectural heritage elements and intangible cultural heritage elements belonging to Armenia, Georgia and Russia. Bana Cathedral, which is the main subject of the study, known locally as Penek Castle-Church, hosts many Georgian tourists every year. Considering the foreign tourist potential of Bana Cathedral and the domestic and foreign tourist potential of other architectural heritage elements in Şenkaya district, suggestions were made to introduce them to architectural heritage tourism. In the study, the phenomenology model, one of the qualitative research methods, was selected and structured interviews were conducted with people in the region. The analysis of the data was carried out using the descriptive analysis method. At the end of the study, suggestions were made to increase the architectural heritage tourism of the region.