Tourism Education in Higher Education During the Covid 19 process: A Research in Ankara

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the perspectives of students studying tourism in higher education in Ankara on distance education during the Covid-19. In accordance with this purpose a four-part questionnaire was applied to 383 students studying tourism at the associate, undergraduate and graduate levels in Ankara. According to the results of the research, although the students have some positive thoughts about distance education, they want to follow the lessons face to face by coming to school. They think that distance education has drawbacks such as staying away from the social environment, encountering technical problems, and making it difficult for them to communicate with the instructor. In the study, it was also concluded that the technology, system and applications sub-dimension used in evaluating tourism students' perspectives on distance education differs according to the variables of age, program type and institution type. However, it was found that the self-efficacy sub-dimension differed according to all variables. It has been determined that the sub-dimension of perspective towards distance tourism education differs according to the type of program, age and gender variables. t-test, ANOVA and Mann-Whitney U test were used in the analysis.