Abstract:

Turkey is a country that is likely to face different strategic crises. As a measure against the crisis in tourism, it is important that government and business policies, as well as tourist guides, which are the most important actors in the tourism sector, develop a positive attitude towards their professions. In this sense, the institutions that educate tourist guides have important tasks. From this point, the study aims to reveal the relationship between the crises that occur in Turkey and the tourism sector with the professional attitudes of tourist guidance students. The study adopted the karma method and the data were obtained by the survey of 424 students in the higher education institutions that educate tourist guides in Turkey, and by face-to-face interviews with 19 students. The study finds that the crisis has a low-level negative relationship with the professional attitudes of tourist guidance students. In particular, tourist guidance students have been found to learn from the crisis they experience, to develop themselves, to be an equipped, preferred tourist guide and to carry out the profession, to look at the future with hope and to believe that they will be successful in the profession. * This study was conducted by the University of Anadolu No. 1705E135.It was prepared within the framework of the project "The Impact of the Crisis in Tourism Tourism Guidelines on the Professional Attitudes of Students" and presented as a statement at the "5th World Research Summit for Tourism and Hospitality" Congress, which took place between 11 and 18 December 2019 in the U.S. and Orlando.

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