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The purpose of this study is to examine the extracurricular online activities organized by institutions providing tourism undergraduate education at the higher education level during the coronavirus (covid-19) epidemic, in terms of various variables, to evaluate the efficiency of the institution and to question their competencies. In the collection of research data, document-archive scanning technique was used and secondary data sources were utilized. The study sample constitute of 230 online activities, are organized by faculties and schools of tourism in Turkey and taking place of these institutions' all of official online platform, held from March 2020 to end of December 2020. Frequency and percentage analysis were used to evaluate the detected online activities. Data visualization analysis was performed to make sense of the data and concretize the outputs and for this purpose, an interactive software Tableau was used. As a result; institutions, providing tourism undergraduate education at the higher education level, were able to diversify educational communication by using technology-based digital platforms and social media channels as an alternative to the distance education system in the coronavirus epidemic crisis in general; however, they could not benefit from these platforms sufficiently.

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