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Problem Statement: Employment in the Turkish tourism sector has important characteristics and problems in respect of paid employees. Most important problems are; low participation of women in employment, inadequate education level, low wages, large amount of unregistered employment, low tenure, large amount of labor turnover ratios and long weekly working hours. In addition, there is confusion and ambiguity in the data about employees.Research Aims: Objective of this study is to reveal and analyze the characteristics and problems of paid employment in Turkish tourism sector by comparing them according to geographic regions. Besides, it is aimed to reveal clearly the geographical statistics of paid employees who work in the Turkish tourism sector.Method: In this study, data set of 2011 Household Labor Survey HLS which belongs to Turkish Statistical Institute TurkStat was used. The data which consists of 5764 paid employees’ responses was analyzed by using SPSS statistical software. Cross-table and arithmetic mean methods were used in the analysis. Findings and Results: While paid labor is concentrated especially in Marmara Region, the role of women in labor is 1/5. Education level is extremely low in all regions but especially in Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia Regions and average income of workers is at the level of minimum wage. The level of unregistered employment is high; that reaches 70.7 % in Southeastern Anatolia Region. Low years of tenure, large amount of labor turnover ratio and long weekly working hours are have been identified in all regions.Proposals: Some of the suggestions in order to solve the basic problems of paid employees related to employment in Turkish Tourism Employment are: raising the level of education of employees, providing tourism businesses to have more qualified personnel by legal regulations, providing businesses to use intrinsic and extrinsic motivation tools effectively, improving working conditions, raising wages to a satisfactory level and inspecting businesses tightly

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