Abstract:

Tourism guidance is an area in which the cultural transfer of societies and those who perform the profession are expressed as cultural ambassadors. The fact that the tourism movements towards destinations reached to 1.5 billion participants increased the need for tourism guidance. At this point, countries aim to train qualified tourism guides in order to achieve the objectives such as efficiency and efficiency in tourism marketing by providing more tourist satisfaction. The resulting need for pre-professional tourist guide license in Turkey are solved with the help of undergraduate and graduate programs. This research was conducted in order to examine the past and present status of graduate studies on tourism guidance and the research was conducted by choosing qualitative study method. In this context, bibliometric analysis of graduate theses on tourism guidance subjects in the database of Higher Education Institution Thesis Center (YÖKTEZ) was performed. In the research, 87 graduate theses were reached based on the screening model. The data obtained within the scope of the research were subjected to interpretation and evaluation processes in the light of various parameters. The results show that there is an increase in postgraduate education in the field of tourism guidance and postgraduate studies published in the Department of Tourism Guidance for the first time. An Erratum to this article was published on 26 January 2021. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/alanyaakademik/issue/60067/868763 

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