Özet:

This research was carried out to find out the familiarity, participation levels and viewpoints of hotel managers about recreation. For this purpose, 83 hotel managers working in hotels located in West Blacksea Region cities, Zonguldak, Karabük and Bartın, were interviewed, and the data derived from these interviews were evaluated in SPSS 18.00 statistical program and the results of these evaluations were discussed with descriptive statistics through the tables of frequencies (f) and percentages (%). In order to define the relationships between some variables and the necessity perception of recreation activities in hotels, Pearson Product Moment Correlation was applied. According to this research it was observed that the knowledge and consciousness levels of the hotel managers is too low and their participation to recreational activities were very limited; only football and walking as physical activities and going to cinemas as cultural activities, and the participation to recreational activities frequencies were very low. Besides they had negative attitude to adaptation of recreational activities in their hotels. On the other hand, the correlation analyses put out that there was a close relationship between education levels and graduation specialties of hotel managers and their perceptions about the necessity of recreation activities. Whereas, basic demographic variables such as, age, gender, location, professional experience, income, etc. had no relationship with the attitudes and perceptions of hotel managers. According to these findings; the main obstacle in front of the development of lodging industry in the West Blacksea Region appeared to be the hotel managers themselves as they don’t have enough educational and professional background. Therefore at the end of this research it was suggested that the hotel managers should be chosen from those who had relevant and sufficient educational background.

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