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The education system in the world has reunited a multi-faceted structure with the development of communication and transportation tools. It is seen that people who want to complete and develop their education go to different countries for this purpose. Especially in recent years, this number has increased and many foreign students have been educated in many different countries. Giresun University is one of the universities that has many foreign students and accepts students from abroad for educational purposes. It is known that there are a significant number of students who came to the University for the purpose of education in the field of tourism. The opinions of these foreign students about the tourism education that they received at Giresun University will provide a general information about the current education and will enable the determination of the education status. The main purpose of the research is to determine how tourism education is perceived by foreign students and to identify deficiencies in tourism education. In this way, it will be possible to make improvements to the perception of tourism education for foreign students. In the research, word association test method was used to determine of student perceptions. It was determined that there were 65 students studying tourism at Giresun University and a questionnaire was applied to all students for word association test. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the concepts of school, work and profession were the most repeated words. It has been determined that the awareness level of foreign students' perception of tourism education is sufficient. |
