Özet:

Tourist guides are people who present a country and an area to tourists, provide information about these places, spend the most time with the tourists, and represent their country best. Tough tourist guiding has advantages like discovering new places and meeting new cultures, it also contains many disadvantages. On the other hand, long and irregular work hours are one of the disadvantages of tourist guiding. It is highly probable that the motivations of the tourist guides, who are living work family conflict, are falling and they are intend to leave their work by reflecting this situation to their work. Because of these reasons, the purpose of this research is to determine the effects of work-family conflict on the decisions of the tourist guides for quitting work. In this regard, after reviewing related literature, surveys have been carried out to tourist guides to determine the effects of work-family conflict on the intentions of tourist guides to quit work. As a result of this research, woman guides have been found to have more work-family conflict than men. Also, married and young guides, and guides with a high level of education have been found to face more work-family conflict. It has been determined that the individuals with more work-family conflict have more tendency of quitting work. Keywords: Turkey, Tourism, Tour Guide, Work Family Conflict, Turnover Intention.

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