Bibliometric Profile of Thesis Related to Gastronomy in the Field of Tourism

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to examine the gastronomy thesis made in the field of tourism. For this purpose, tourism graduate thesis in the web site of the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education were scanned with the keyword "gastronomy" and 33 thesis were reached. Seven of the thesis were found to have limited access. The thesis reached; year, thesis type, university, other keywords used, number of pages, academic title, thesis topic, adopted research approach, sampling technique, sampling group and data collection tool were investigated from a bibliographic perspective. The thesis included in the scope of the research were subjected to frequency analysis through the statistical program in line with the related parameters. The use of only the word "gastronomy" as a keyword in this study is an important limitation of studying. As a result of this study, it was determined that thesis made in the field of tourism were generally graduate thesis and that thesis were usually written within the scope of marketing subject. In the study, it is seen that foreign tourists are preferred more frequently as a sample group, the sampling methods used in reaching the sample group are easy sampling and sampling according to purpose and it is determined that the most used tool to obtain data from the sample reached is the questionnaire.