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Tourism as a social activity comes
to the forefront with its cultural and economic dimensions. The tourism sector
keeps pace with the changing world. Consequently, 3S -sea, sand, sun-; defining
tourism and holiday mentality has reached up to substantial character. People
prefer to spend time in nature, meet different cultures and experience the
values of places by themselves either individually or as (1 group in holidays.
Thus alternative types of tourism occurred against mass tourism called eco-tourism
generally. The importance of botanic gardens and arboretums which give an
opportunity to explore plant variety and geographical characteristics become
significant to support nature tourism and botanic tourism day by day. The functions
and benefits of arboretums are handled and then Trakya University Balkan
Arboretum Project is mentioned for tourism destination of Edirne in this study.