In today's world, people are known to have desire to travel extensively and explore new places by moving away from social life. It is observed that what lies beneath people's particular interest in coastal areas and large-scale cities is such cities' being developed in views of tourism and their widespread publicity In our country, which has rich diversity in terms of cultural heritage, cities have their own distinguishing features and textures. Mapping out the cultural heritage by a trip route in tourism activities will help increase the awareness of the cities and promote the cultural heritage. Handling cultural heritage through city interaction will enable the city's unique local characteristics and lifestyle to be handed down from generation to generation, improving cultural activities. In this study, it has been aimed at increasing the attention to small-scale cities and offering such cities to tourism by establishing different cultural roots of the distinguishing features in tangible and non-tangible cultural heritage of Anatolian cities. In this context, it is aimed at protecting the original quality of the cultural heritage texture of the cities and keeping informed visitors thanks to cultural routes to be created, avoiding transforming the distinguishing local-cultural features of the cities. Literature search method has been employed in the study. In this literature search, the studies conducted in our country and around the world have been examined and discussed on the basis of comparison and contrast relations. Based on the study results obtained, it has been concluded that the publicity of the cultural heritage is as significant as the protection of it, that cultural tourism is of utmost importance in views of our country and it should be further improved. In the light of these findings, the cultural diversity, present in small-scale cities, can be outward oriented thanks to cultural route planning, thus involving interest in large-scale cities.