Tourism Students’ Motivation Level in Turkey
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https://doi.org/10.18533/ijbsr.v5i4.701Keywords:
Motivations, preference, tourism, students.Abstract
This research is made in order to testing of thoughts about their occupations, level of motivation and the importance of the industry to determine the attitude of the staff to work in the growing tourism sector of four-year bachelor's degree student’s in the Faculty of Tourism. Faculty of Tourism of Gazi University consist of the study sample and totally 423 students completed the questionnaire. According to the results of the research, majority of the respondents (%84,6) indicated they preferred to the faculty willingly. Data were tested by MANOVA. The motivations factors (self-realization, business opportunities, the appeal, ease of operation, academic achievement), vary according to the sections the participant’s studied, classes, high schools they graduated, order of preference and if they came to the faculties willingly or not. Also motivation level of the department of tourism guiding students and first-grade students of all departments has been determined higher than others.
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