Abstract:

No matter what profession they have, if the people don’t have reading habit, it is very difficult to be successful in their occupation. Therefore, students who will have a job in near future should gain the reading and research habits during their school years. Because students decide what occupation they will do in their college years. The aim of this study is to examine the reading and research habits related the occupation of vocational school students, studying tourism in the Eastern Anatolia Region. The study group of the research included a total number of 427 (F=171, M=256) students. Frequency analysis and percentage analysis were used for the descriptive analysis. Chi-square test was used to analyze the differences between parameters. Results revealed that the students’ habit of reading and research about tourism in their leisure time was very low. Furthermore, they did not endeavor sufficiently to get information, to read and research about their occupation.   According to results of the study, there was no significant difference between students’ reading habits and, their high school degree and also household income level. There was a significant difference between gender and students’ perception about tourism related resources in the university library, doing researches about tourism in their leisure and discussing with their friends about tourism.

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