Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between occupational choice and personality traits of the tourism guiding students. Also, evaluation of the guiding students’ personality traits in the compliance of guiding is purposed. The research has been carried out by using data collected with survey method from 148 tourism guiding students who attend four-year programs/departments. Frequency statistics, reliability statistics, descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations), independent samples t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey HSD and correlation statistics were used to analysis the data gathered via surveys. The results indicated that “Openness to experience” and “Conscientiousness” were the dominant personality traits of tourism guiding students, also a relationship at positive level between the personality traits and occupational choice has been determined. When evaluating the importance of the relationship between personality traits and job fit, this research is thought to be useful for people who want to choose tourist guiding as a profession

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