Omani tourism and hospitality students' employment intentions and job preferences Ramifications on Omanization plans
Omani tourism and hospitality students' employment intentions and job preferences Ramifications on Omanization plans
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DOI:
10.1108/qae-04-2016-0022
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发表时间:
2017-01-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Al Balushi, Masooma
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作者:
Atef, Tamer;Al Balushi, Masooma
Purpose - This paper aims to assess receptiveness for Tourism and Hospitality as a career path among students in the Tourism Department of Sultan Qaboos University (College of Arts and Social Sciences), located in the Sultanate of Oman. The following objectives were identified to achieve this aim: assess respondents' perceptions of tourism and hospitality employment; respondents' tourism and hospitality employment commitment factors; and respondents' perceptions of tourism and hospitality jobs.Design/methodology/approach - A self-administered questionnaire was used to gather data and measure respondents' perceptions of the subject under investigation. Survey questions were developed from the literature reviewed which provided the framework for the questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises four different question categories: general information; students' general perception of tourism and hospitality employment; and tourism and hospitality employment commitment factors; students' perceptions of tourism and hospitality jobs. Data were tested for normality of distribution; then, means were used for data description and ranking; thereafter, the independent-samples t-test and analysis of variance were conducted to test for significance between groups of respondents; the level of significance used was p