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Social anxiety (anxiety) disorder is a common psychiatric condition, especially among adolescents. Individuals with anxiety of social interaction show negative feelings such as avoiding social encounters during their communication with others. Therefore, such circumstances in the tourist guidance profession, which requires oral communication in some professional groups, may have a negative impact. In this study, students who continue to the tourist guidance bachelor's department were studied on the basis of demographic characteristics of whether they would continue to the guidance profession after their training, taking into account the levels of social interaction concerns. The study group of research is formed by the University of Fisheries School of Tourism Tourist Guidance Bachelor students. In 2018 and 2019, there was a volunteer participation of 266 students, including 135 men and 131 women. As a data collection tool, the Social Interaction Anxiety Measure (SECO) and the Social Fobia Measure (SFO) were used. Test and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) are used in the analysis of data. The research has shown that tourist guidance students do not have social interaction concerns and want to do the career of guidance after graduation. *This article is produced from a master's thesis entitled "A research on the social interaction concerns of tourist guidance students" conducted in the Department of Tourism Management at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Fiskesir.

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