ABSTRACT
To recap, this chapter has focused on the interactions and negotiations between tourists and villagers in Göreme as they compare to the types of relations evoked by the package group tours that are largely controlled by external tour agencies and guides. By taking a comparative look at the two different styles and structures of tourism in and around Göreme as the starting point of the analysis, it has been shown that while both package group and backpacker tourists follow tourist representations of the ‘authentically social’, what does differ is the degree to which their experiences are pre-structured, and hence the degree and quality of their interactions with villagers.
