Tourism Industry In Turkey Research Articles

IMPACT OF AN ECONOMIC CRISIS Evidence from Turkey

This paper evaluates the impact of the 2001 economic crisis on the tourism industry in Turkey. The research findings reveal that neither the government nor private organizations had any plans for dealing with the crisis before or after the event. It had both negative and positive impacts although its benefits were often overlooked. The overall implication of the study is that national culture, the level of economic development of a country, the availability of financial resources, and the ability and knowledge of its government officials and managers of private firms have a direct impact on how such an event is responded to and managed.

Perceptions and attitudes of undergraduate tourism students towards working in the tourism industry in Turkey

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to develop a multi-dimensional and multi-item attitude scale for measuring undergraduate tourism students’ attitudes towards working in the tourism industry, and to investigate the general attitudes of undergraduate tourism students using the new measure. This paper describes the scale-development process and presents the results of the testing of the new scale among a sample of four-year tourism and hotel management school students in Turkey. Overall, unfavourable or negative evaluations towards different dimensions of working in the tourism industry are reported. Implications for the travel industry, the public sector and tourism and hotel management schools are also discussed.