Usage of Interactive Technologies in Tourism Guidance Education A Research on Educational Institutions at the Level of Bachelor Degree

Autor: Büyükşalvarcı, Ahmet, Altınışık, İsa, Tekin, Özlem
Přispěvatelé: Selçuk Üniversitesi, Meslek Yüksek Okulları, Sosyal Bilimler Meslek Yüksekokulu, Altınışık, İsa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Popis: Tourist guides are officials responsible for effectively promoting tourism destinations to local and foreign tourists. To provide a high quality service is related with the quality of the theoretical and practical training. When tourist guide training is examined within the scope of innovations in the field of education science in Turkey and the World, it has been determined that lessons about technologies using by professional tourist guides are not available in curriculums.According to findings of previous researches, technological applications used in museums have a positive effect on service quality of professional tourist guides. It is stated that, narrations are more fun, memorable and more descriptive with the help of technological applications.The research will focus on interactive technologies and describe how these technologies canbe used in tourism guidance education. During the summer holiday of 2016, researchers conducted an online survey to study the acceptance and user experience of interactive technologies on tourism guidance education. This paper reports analyses of quantitative survey data of respondents (Tourism Guiding Lecturers). Technology attitude scale has been used for taking lecturer’s opinion about research.
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