Turist Rehberlerinin Kullandığı Bilgi Kaynaklarının Belirlenmesi (Identifying of Information Sources Used by Tourist Guides)
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https://doi.org/10.21325/jotags.2020.729Keywords:
Information resources, Tourist guide books, Tour guides, Tourist guides, TourismAbstract
While managing a tour the tourist guides, who reflect the image of the country in the tourism industry and build the sociocultural image of the country in the minds of tourists with correct information, the sources of information on which the expressions of historical and cultural tourism practices are based of important. In addition, what are the sources of information used by the guides are important for guidance professional practices. The determination of this is the opportunity to both confirm and improve the information provision to the guides in the future and contribute as a resource research to the sources of information. In this study, it was aimed to determine the sources of information used by tourist guides and to examine the differentiation of sources according to the demographic characteristics of tourist guides. In the scope of this purpose, relationships between the information sources and the types of publications most frequently used by tourist guides and demographic characteristics were revealed by multiple cohesion analysis. According to the results, it was determined that the most recent information learned about the destination and the information obtained from the personal experiences of the tourist guides during each tour were used the most. Moreover, it was found that tourist guides mostly used the information they learned from the internet, archeology and history books publishers.
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