Information Package / Course Catalogue
Current Issues in Tourist Guiding
Course Code: REH454
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

This course aims to enable students to identify the legal, educational, and professional problems faced by tourist guides and to propose solutions to these problems

Course Content

Within the scope of this course, after examining the Tourist Guiding Law Act No. 6326the status of tourist guiding profession from past to present and information will be given about the problems encountered by tourist guides in terms of legal, educational and ethical aspect, and the problems they experience with their colleagues, tradesmen, shops, stores, travel agencies, drivers, and local people

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.He/she learns what kind of the problems there are between tourist guides and travel agencies
2.He/she learns the ethical problems in tourist guiding profession
3.He/she learns about legal problems in tourist guiding profession
4.He/she gets information about educational problems in tourist guiding profession
5.He/she gets information about the problems arising between tourist guides and shopkeepers/ salesclerks/ peddlers
6.He/ she gets information about the problems arising between tourist guides and tour leaders/ bus drivers
7.He/ she gets information about the problems arising between tourist guide and local people
8.He/ she gets information about the problems arising between tourist guides and tourists
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Eser, S., Şahin, S. & Çakıcı, C. (2018). (edt) Turist Rehberliği, Ankara: Detay Yayıncılık
2.Çolakoğlu O.E., Epik, F. & Efendi, E. (2010). Tur Yönetimi ve Turist Rehberliği, 2. Baskı, Ankara: Detay Yayıncılık.
3.Güzel, F., Altıntaş, V. ve Şahin, İ. (2017). (edt.), Turist Rehberliği Araştırmaları: Öngörüler ve Uygulamalar, Ankara: Detay Yayıncılık.
4.Acar, V., Karaosmanoğlu, K. & Şenbahar, Y. (2020). Turistik Halı ve Deri Mağazaları ile Seyahat Acentaları Arasındaki Güncel Sorunları Belirlemeye Yönelik Nitel Bir Araştırma: Kuşadası ve Selçuk Örneği, Öneri Dergisi, 15 (54), 610-643.
5.Acar, V. & Tanrısevdi, A. (2023). Rehberli Turlarda Turist Davranışları, Ankara: Detay Yayıncılık
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
General evaluation will be made about tourist guidance from past to present
Week 2 - Theoretical
Tourist Guiding Law Act. No. 6326 and Regulation will be discussed
Week 3 - Theoretical
Student will be asked to determine their term paper topics on one of the problems that tourist guide profession faces after giving information about the problem-solving steps (defining the problem, collecting and analyzing data to solve the problem, creating alternative solutions, making evaluation between alternatives, choosing the best solution and reviewing the results)
Week 4 - Theoretical
Information will be given about the “legal” problems faced by tourist guides and related literature will be examined
Week 5 - Theoretical
Information will be given about “educational” problems that tourist guide profession faces, and related literature will be discussed
Week 6 - Theoretical
Information will be given about the problems arising between tourist guides and tourists, and related literature will be discussed
Week 7 - Theoretical
Information will be given about the problems arising between tourist guides and shopkeepers/salesclerks/peddlers and related literature will be discussed
Week 8 - Theoretical
Information will be given about the problems arising between tourist guides and tour leaders/ bus drivers and related studies will be discussed
Week 9 - Theoretical
Information will be given about the problems arising between tourist guides and travel agencies and related studies will be discussed
Week 10 - Theoretical
Information will be given about the problems arising between tourist guide and his/her colleagues and related studies will be discussed
Week 11 - Theoretical
Turist rehberi ile yerel halk arasında yaşanan sorunlar hakkında bilgi verilecek ve ilgili çalışmalar tartışılacaktır
Week 12 - Theoretical
Information will be given about ethical problems that tourist guides encounter and related studies will be discussed
Week 13 - Theoretical
Students will present their term papers
Week 14 - Theoretical
Students will present their term papers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141242
Assignment115015
Midterm Examination1819
Final Examination1819
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026