The Views of Tourism Studying Students About Benefits Provided By Tourism

Abstract

Tourism is a service sector based on customer satisfaction and is searching conditions for providing satisfaction and quality of service. In tourism, the provider and the receiver of service are in the focus. The profession of tourism requires a dedication and sacrifice because it is stands over a superior and perfect base and dealing with different cultures and nations and has a heavy work conditions and smiling faces and tolerance. The staff in tourism sector can show this dedication and sacrifice just only in the case when they see their professions useful and so that they love it. This study was conducted with a purpose of determining the recognitions of the stundents who are receiving tourism education in the secondary and undergraduate education in the cities of Diyarbakır, Mardin and Ankara towards the benefits provided by tourism’s profession. It was seen that the views of men were more positive than those of women with no difference was seen between the groups in terms of all dimensions according factor of sex. According to the cities where they are receiving education, the views of students about benefits of tourism showed differences in terms of social and physical dimensions but didnot show difference in economic dimension. According to the cities where they are living, the views of students about benefits of tourism showed differences in terms of social, physical and economic dimensions. A difference was seen in terms of social and economic dimensions in the views of students about benefits of tourism according to their working experience in tourism sector but with no difference was seen in terms of physical dimension, the views of students who worked before in tourism sector is more positive than those who never worked in tourism in terms of all dimensions.