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- Title
TEKNOLOJİ KABUL MODELİYLE TURİZM EĞİTİMİNDE SANAL GERÇEKLİK UYGULAMALARINA İLİŞKİN TUTUM VE KULLANIM NİYETLERİNİN BELİRLENMESİNE YÖNELİK BİR ARAŞTIRMA
- Authors
KASAROĞLU, Kaan; GÜLER, Mehmet Emre
- Abstract
The way to gain sustainable competitive advantage in the tourism industry, which has a global feature and intense competition, passes through qualified service, that is, qualified personnel. Vocational tourism education is extremely important at the point of providing a qualified workforce. Also, considering the developing technologies and their integration into human life today, it is seen that utilizing new technologies in tourism education and carrying out the education processes in coordination with these technologies will increase the quality of tourism education and thus contribute to the training of the qualified workforce needed in the industry. As in other fields, one of the latest technologies used in tourism education is virtual reality technology. In this context, the main purpose of this study is to determine the adaptation processes of using virtual reality technology applications in the education process of students receiving tourism education at the undergraduate level and the factors affecting this process. For this purpose, the survey, which was created on the basis of the Technology Acceptance Model developed by Davis (1989), was applied to the students who received tourism education at the undergraduate level in the state universities in Izmir, and the obtained data were analyzed with the SPSS analysis program. In line with the findings obtained in the research; It was concluded that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and enjoyment dimensions had a statistically significant effect on attitude towards use, perceived usefulness and attitude towards use dimensions also had a statistically significant effect on behavioral intention.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGY Acceptance Model; TOURISM education; VIRTUAL reality; TOURISM; VOCATIONAL education; UNDERGRADUATE education
- Publication
Dokuz Eylul University Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences, 2023, Vol 25, Issue 3, p1400
- ISSN
1302-3284
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.16953/deusosbil.1307089