Abstract:

The development of the tourism sector is remarkable today and it is important that the ethical values are included in the sector in order to make this growth more accurate. Although the ethical capacity of and employees has been assessed so far, the ethical situation of tourists has been less taken into account. The aim of this study is to evaluate the unethical behavior that indigenous tourists perform in the framework of group package tours from the point of view of tourist guides. For this purpose, the data were collected through the focus group method from seven tourist guides that provided local tourists and participation in the tour and the data collected were included in the research through the content analysis. According to the results of the study, the focus group study focuses on unethical tourist behavior intensely; not complying with the rules of museums, disturbing other tourists, providing participation in the tour without reading the program. Behaviors such as interfering with the tour program, calling the guide with argo attitudes, polluting the bus, traveling without the safety belt, not paying the hotel extra, behaving badly with the bus captain, asking the captain to drop the stops in the outside places at returns are also highlighted.

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