LİSANSÜSTÜ TURİZM EĞİTİMİ’NİN ÖĞRENCİ PERSPEKTİFİNDEN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

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Tourism education is provided at secondary, associate, undergraduate, and graduate levels in our country. The first three levels of education aim to train the qualified personnel needed in the tourism sector, while the graduate level aims to train senior managers and academicians for the sector. This study, which aims to evaluate postgraduate tourism education, approaches postgraduate tourism education in Turkey from the perspective of students. The study was applied to 206 students who received postgraduate education in the 2020-2021 academic year in the institutes of universities providing tourism education in Turkey.  The data obtained within the scope of the study were subjected to statistical analysis through the SPSS 22.0 statistical program. Corelation and regression analysis was used to analyze the relationships between the dimensions determining the students' views on tourism education. As a result of the findings, it was found that there were positive and significant relationships between the dimensions of the scale in which students evaluated postgraduate tourism education, and significant differences were found in the level of evaluation of postgraduate tourism education according to the descriptive characteristics of the students.