Today, we celebrate World Environment Day. We wish everyone a productive day on which we all think about our responsibility towards nature and efficient ways to take action...

There are a number of different opinions about Iznik Hagia Sophia Orhan Mosque. Since the day we started to work about Iznik, we have come across lots of different comments. The second question we forwarded to the people who made these comments as a response for our first question was; ‘Have you been there?’...

Yesil Valiz Association for Responsible Tourism hosted StudioSustain Sustainable Design Workshop of Bilgi University Department of Industrial Design in Bursa's UNESCO World Heritage sites. Bilgi University students designed projects related to Cumalıkızık, Sultan Complexes, Historical Bazaar and Khans...

For the first year of our cultural heritage series, we chose Kilis, which proved to be the homeland of olive oil with the 4500-year-old olive seeds found in the excavations conducted under the direction of Prof. Atilla Engin, and we are glad we did!...

We were guests of Nimet Taş, Director of ÇATOM (Kilis Multi-Purpose Community Centre) in order to decide on the by-products to be produced locally for the 'Illizi' (Kilis) series of the special olive oil collection, which was created in cooperation with the Anatolian Gold brand and Yesil Valiz Association for Responsible Tourism and will soon meet the consumers under the name 'Anatolian Gold Cultural Heritage Collection'...

Anatolian Gold, a young olive oil brand advancing with its head high, emphasizing its local quality in international markets and its birthplace Anatolia, the homeland of olive oil...

'My Rural Home' is a social enterprise that promotes small-scale rural tourism businesses at the national and international level. The vision of our initiative funded by the European Union within the scope of the Smart Start Project; to enable independent, local tourism initiatives to make their voices heard in the international market...

Considering that music is the element that best defines a destination, the importance of the discipline of ethnomusicology in our work will be better understood. The music of the region at once reveals its unofficial history; It is indispensable for festivals and shows. While tourism can protect the intangible cultural heritage of the region it enters and transfer it to future generations, unfortunately, it can also cause its destruction...

The book prepared by the world-famous Underwater Imaging Director Mr. Tahsin Ceylan for the Erdek Municipality and Yesil Valiz Association for Responsible Tourism was launched within the 2017 Erdek Time Festival...

Erdek Municipality, whom we have been working with to develop a community-based and responsible tourism strategy since the beginning of 2016, organized the Erdek Time Festival on 22-27 August 2017 under the coordination of the Yesil Valiz Association for Responsible Tourism...

With the Nilüfer Yoga Routes Project realized jointly by our association with the Municipality of Nilüfer, a step has been taken to create alternative tourism routes that will benefit rural tourism. During these activities, women from the local people were trained for marketing of traditional handicrafts. Special product designs that would appeal to yoga lovers were created for the activities which will held in these routes, and traditional handicrafts and patterns were used in modern styles...