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Rural tourism alive is an important tool in achieving a live local economy and a sustainable development. To give acceleration to rural tourism, to take part in political decisions and to produce projects are expected from students studying in the faculty of agriculture during their education and employment processes. Therefore, knowing students' perceptions and determination of attitudes towards rural tourism would be important. This is expected to be used as data in the educational plans and rural development policies. In this study, point views of students of the Faculty of Agriculture in Gaziosmanpaşa University for rural tourism are examined. A survey was conducted with 235 students, cross-tables were formed and also Chi-square analyzes were conducted. According to the findings, rate of knowing rural tourism activities and rural tourism description through students of the Department of Agricultural Economics is higher when compared to other departments. Rural students were found to be willing to work in the tourism industry. In the rural tourism sector, men were determined to work as boss of their own business and women were determined as they want to work as the manager. Students who know rural tourism activities were seen to have participated in rural tourism activities previously. According to Chi-square analysis significant differences were found between sex and the idea of working in rural tourism according to departments status of knowledge regarding participation in rural tourism activities definition form of rural tourism according to departments and extent of knowledge of rural tourism activities. Consequently, giving lectures of rural tourism to all departments of Faculty of Agriculture will increase the awareness of students on this issue and will contribute to development of rural tourism in the future.

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