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Tourist guidance education is provided at universities at bachelor, pre-graduate, master and doctoral levels. Tourist guidance professional training, which has a great importance in the promotion and image of Turkey, must also be provided by academics who know the field and have grown up in this field. The purpose of this research is to study the graduation fields of academics who work in the departments that provide tourist guidance education at the bachelor and pre-graduate level in universities. The emphasis on the importance of academics from the field in the research tourist guidance training is considered to be important in terms of the employment of department graduate academics in the tourist guidance departments and the direction of the work to be done in the future. In the research, the image-qualitative scanning model, which is a qualitative research method as the data collection technique, was used. The research data is obtained from the websites of the universities and the Higher Education Institute (YÖK). In total, 248 academics working within 56 universities have been identified. It was found that 61 of the academics working in the tourist guidance departments (24%) have graduates in Travel Management and Tourism Guide, Travel Management and Tourism Guide Teaching, Tourist Guide and Tourism Guide and pre-graduate graduates. In addition, 138 (55%) of them have been found to be related to the tourism sector.

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