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Tourism has links with many fields such as politics, history, geography, economy, sports and culture. One of the fields it has links with is literature. Increasing competition gives rise to an expanding demand for alternative tourism destinations for tourists as destination managers incline to promote alternative tourism sites. One of these tourism types is literary tourism, which includes visits to destinations related to literature, that has recently become a popular attraction in Turkey for example there are Literature Museum Libraries which are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Turkey. This research aims to evaluate civil structures, mainly Ankara Mehmet Akif Ersoy Literature Museum Library which was built in the name of Mehmet Akif Ersoy who is a national poet, in relation to literature tourism. The activities for tourism carried out within the scope of literary tourism contribute positively to the region economically and helps to promote the area. Visiting the areas where Mehmet Akif Ersoy, the writer of the National Anthem, spent his life, being able to see his belongings, his handwriting, first edition books and photographs of that period, helps to establish an emotional bond between the tourists and the poet, and to inform the tourists about the conditions and the feelings with which these works were written and can be concluded that it is very valuable in terms of forming ideas.