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    The Sense of Belonging Amongst Tourism Students in Brazil: An assessment comparing perceptions of bachelor and associate degree students.

    Data de publicação: 24/10/2019
    This work analyzes the profiles of undergraduate students of tourism at two public universities in the south of Brazil, aiming to understand the motivations that led them to choose a career in tourism, and how they integrate themselves into the social fabric and appropriate the university as their own. It is a descriptive and predominantly quantitative study, focusing on undergraduate students enrolled in different types of career paths: a bachelor’s degree and a technologist degree (similar to an associate degree) in tourism. Primary data on the students were collected through a structured questionnaire, with questions related to the students’ personal profiles, their route of entry to the universities, their motivations for studying tourism at those universities, and their sense of belonging to the university and to the city in general. The data were analyzed using Exploratory/Confirmatory Factor Analysis (E-CFA) to test factors brought from the literature, a Structural Equation Model Analysis to assess the relationships between the factors, and mean comparisons to identify significant differences between universities and groups. The results confirmed that the motivations for choosing to major in tourism are influenced by the opinions of others and by the convenience at the university; they also confirmed that the motivations for choosing tourism as a career influence social integration and the sense of academic belongingness.

Turismo: Visão e Ação

A Turismo: Visão e Ação vinculado ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Turismo e Hotelaria - Mestrado e Doutorado, é um periódico científico de publicação no sistema de fluxo contínuo, interdisciplinar e de alcance internacional, classificada, segundo os critérios Qualis/CAPES (2017-2020), como 'A3' na área de Administração, Ciências Contábeis e Turismo. Registrada no ISSN sob o número 1983-7151, a Turismo: Visão e Ação iniciou suas atividades em 1998 com publicações impressas, nas versões inglês e português. Em 2008, transformou-se em publicação On-Line, com alcance maior do público interessado, mantendo como política de ser um periódico de acesso aberto e sem cobranças de taxas de submissão e acesso aos artigos. A Turismo: Visão e Ação (TVA) possui como título abreviado do periódico Tur., Visão e Ação, usado em bibliografias, notas de rodapé, referências e legendas bibliográficas.

 

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