Paragliding As A Touristic Attractiveness.

Paragliding in Turkey and Around the World

PARAGLİDİNG

CONTENT• What is Paragliding

• History Of Paragliding Sport

• Adventages of paragliding

• Tourism Demand & Paragliding

• Tourism Supplies & Paragliding

• Needed Equipments

• Paragliding and related activities

• Who Can Attend To This Sport ?

• Paragliding In Turkey

• Paragliding Festivals In Turkey

• Most Demanded Cities In Turkey For Paragliding

• Most Demanded Countries In The World For Paragliding

PARAGLİDİNG

Paragliding is one of the most demanded aviation sport because;

The matarials that being used for paragliding are movable,can be stored at home. This sport doesnt require a special takeoff or landing track. İts simple to learn thans to its easy control. One of the best aviation sport ever because you are not in the cocpit and you feel all that rush and adrenalin and its the cheapest aviation branch.

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive Adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched gilider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a hollow fabric wing whose shape is formed by its suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside.

A paraglider can fly hours and kilometers long with following the air currents by the appropriate weather, hours of flights.

These moves can be done by the personel skills and abilities thats why pragliders are use the « Pilot» title.

The world Record made by a Turkish Pilot which is 232 KM

HİSTORY OF PARAGLİDİNG SPORT

• In 1948, simple sail wings appeared (invented). People started to discover that these wing can be use to pull themselves and keep them on the air for a while. In 1948 Dr. Francis Rogalla invented the portable delta wings and by the time these portaple delta wings are progressed by security and performance.

PARAGLİDİNG’S HİSTORY

• The parachutes used first to jump from the planes and by the time a new sport catagory created which is callad ‘parapente’ in French, ‘paragliding’ in English, ‘yamaç paraşütü’ in Turkish which means Cliff Parachuting.

• In 1970’s first Paragliding attempts started and in 1980’s Paragliding become a famous sport.

ADVENTAGES OF PARAGLİDİNG

• Can easily take off,

• Can easily routed to anywhere,

• Can easily land,

• The wings can open and bend in a couple of minutes,

• With an appropriate training, Basic Flying control abilities can be learned in a couple of days.

• Cheaper than the other Aviation sports.

• Can be done every little hillside,slope or windy area.

TOURİSM DEMAND & PARAGLİDİNG

Tourist demand is defined as the total number of persons who travel, or wish to travel, to use tourist facilities and services at places away from their places of work or residence.

TOURİSM SUPPLİES & PARAGLİDİNG

Tourism supply is a complex phenomenon because of both the nature of the product and the process of delivery.

Principally, it cannot be stored – it is a perishable product

Transport and information technology are key elements

Policy, planning and development issues

TOURİSM SUPPLİES & PARAGLİDİNG

Attractivenesses;Natural beauties, Attractive mountains, Hillsides and opportunities for back ups .

Infrastructures;Take off runways, Landing Points, accessable raods,

Upper structure;Accomidation, Transportation, Transport vehicles and transport equipments.

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 1. Parachute

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 2. Pilot Harness

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 3. Wind Meter

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 4. Helmet

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 5. Suit

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 6. Boot

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 7. Windscok

NEEDED EQUİPMENTS 8. Variometer

PARAGLIDING IS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES

1. Hang gliding

2. Paramotor

3.Speed riding or Speed Flying:

4. Windsurf or Power kite

WHO CAN ATTEND TO THİS SPORT ?• Every healty person over 15 years old can attend to this sport after they

had their theorical and practical trainings.

PARAGLİDİNG IN TURKEY

PARAGLİDİNG IN TURKEY

• The participants who attend to paragliding are between 20 – 55 years old Tourists, locals and professional pilots in Turkey. Most of them are a member of special flight clubs or members of universities’s flight clubs.

PARAGLİDİNG IN TURKEY• Foreign paragliders are coming to Turkey by tourism agencies, flight clubs,

international festivals.

• Non – professional attenders are mostly tourists and join to the Tandem paragliding.

PARAGLİDİNG FESTİVALS IN TURKEY

• In many cities of Turkey there are many National and International Paragliding festivals are being organised.Some of these festivals are below;

Aydıncık yelken ve yamaç paraşütü festivali Uluslararası Ölüdeniz hava oyunları festivali Adapazarı uluslar arası yamaç paraşütü festivali Sakarya uluslararası yamaç paraşütü festivali Bolu abant havacılık festivali

MOST DEMANDED CİTİES IN TURKEY FOR PARAGLİDİNG • Ankara – gölbaşı ________ Racon• Denizli- Pamukkale_______ Rinamit• Denizli- çökelez _________ Çökelez• İzmir - boz dağ ___________Boz dağ • Kayseri _______________Ali dağ• Erzincan ________________Munzur• Isparta _________________Eğridir• İstanbul ________________Ormanlı• Akşehir _________________Akşehir• Antalya kaş______________Asaz

• Bolu ___________________Abant

• Sivas ___________________Yıldız eli

• Manisa__________________Spil

• Tokat ___________________Şenyurt

• Muğla- ölüdeniz___________Babadağ

MOST DEMANDED COUNTRİES IN THE WORLD FOR PARAGLİDİNG• Turkey• Costarica• Canada• New zeland• İndia• Australia• Bulgaria• Cyprus• Holland• Greece• Mexico• Moscow• Poland• Switzerland

İsak UZUN

2012 lsth Semester AWF Erasmus