Perceptions of Tourism Students on Their Education They Received and Career Expectations

Hasan Ali Erdoğan

doi:10.54497/neugastro.2024.3

Hasan Ali Erdoğan, aynur gülenç birsen

Year : 2024
Vol : 3
No : 1
Page : 29-50

DOI : 10.54497/neugastro.2024.3

Meeting consumer service quality expectations and ensuring satisfaction is possible with employees who have received quality tourism training in professional and technical terms. However, while the number of educational institutions that will meet the sector's need for qualified people has been increasing in recent years, the fact that some of the graduates do not have a career idea in the sector or that many employed tourism graduates leave their jobs after working in the sector for only a few years is a serious problem regarding the employment of educated tourism. This study, which approaches the causes of this problem from the perspective of young individuals' perceptions of the education they receive, was carried out with the aim of both finding a solution to the employment problem and increasing the success of educational institutions. The aim of the study is to find answers to the questions of how satisfied undergraduate students are with the education they receive regarding their future careers and to what extent their career expectations are met. The findings of this research, in which the perceptions of 28 students from 4 different departments of the Faculty of Tourism of a state university were tried to be determined by semi-structured qualitative interview technique, were obtained by content analysis. Participating students' evaluations were examined in 6 dimensions. These; "choice processes", "career awareness related to their fields", "career ideas regarding the education they received", "whether the courses they took are useful for their career goals", "to what extent their career expectations are met" and "suggestions for the quality of education". The participants' thoughts were evaluated and compared on a section-by-section basis. At the end of the study, it was concluded that Recreation Management students' desire and awareness levels were lower than other department students regarding their department selection processes and career awareness. On the other hand, it was revealed that half of the participants thought that the courses taken and their content were problematic in terms of their career goals. It was found out that the students who criticized the most on this issue were Gastronomy, Culinary Arts and Recreation Management students. Various suggestions were made in line with the findings.

Cite this Article As : Gülenç Birsen, A., & Erdoğan, H. A. (2024). Turizm öğrencilerinin aldıkları eğitime ve kariyer beklentilerine ilişkin algıları. NEUGastro, 3(1), 29-50. https://doi.org/10.54497/neugastro.2024.3

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Perceptions of Tourism Students on Their Education They Received and Career Expectations, Research Article,
2024, Vol. 3 (1)

Received : 02.05.2024, Accepted : 30.05.2024 , Published Online : 30.06.2024