Özet:

The development of the tourism sector and the continuation of competition are vital for the employees of this sector. Good-trained and experienced staff in the field are important actors not only in the competition between enterprises, but also in regional, national and international competition. This importance of employees makes it necessary for them to have a good training in the tourism field, as well as for the theory and practice to strengthen the learners and to promote the industry closely. In fact, in many of the middle and higher education institutions that provide tourism education, internship practices for this purpose have become an important part of education and have been made mandatory. In this study, researched how efficient the internship applies to the future of the industry is for students, how profited the internship is, and various solutions proposals are presented. The findings reveal that the various difficulties encountered in the internship practices and the wrong practices put both and students into power. In the study, the opinions of students about the internship practices were obtained by applying the survey method and analyzed in a computer environment.

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