UNDERGRADUATE TOURISM STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD CAREER IN CUISINE DEPARTMENT: THE CASE OF SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY
Öz
The cuisine, which has an important role in holiday experience from far in the past and mostly seen as a by product in destination, today has been an individual touristic product for all destinations. The countries that aware of this situation, invest on education facilities to train more qualified human resources for cuisine works. Over the last decades there has been substantial improvements on cuisine education in Turkey. But it is difficult to say that these improvements have reflected to tourism industry sufficiently. The various researches which has conducted in tourism sector reveals that how low the ratio of well-educated human resources in tourism sector. It is predicted that the education level in cuisine department is not higher than the general average of tourism sector however there is no specific findings about this topic. In this research, it is aimed to examine the undergraduate tourism students' attitudes toward especially cuisine department. The research conducted on 309 undergraduate tourism students who are studying on Culinary and Tourism and Hotel Management assoicate degree programs in Suleyman Demirel University. The datum of the research collected by using questionnaire method and the quantitative analyzing methods were used. At the end of the research it is found that the students' attitudes against the cuisine department are generally on positive level. Besides this findings, it is determined that students' attiudes toward cuisine department differentiates significantly by some of their demographic characteristics and personal features.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
18 Mayıs 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
5 Aralık 2015
Kabul Tarihi
7 Şubat 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Sayı: 52