Journal of Tourism Theory and Research

57-71

Authors: Mahmut Demir

The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of person-organization fit on job performance and intention to remain in hospitality business. First, questionnaire for this study is developed from literature on a 5-point Likert-type that has three parts questions. Through conducting a face-to-face interview, a total of 399 questionnaires are collected from employees of five-star hotels in Mugla. PASW statistical package program is used to analyze the data that includes various statistical tools such as factor analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. As a result, the findings indicate that P-O fit has a positive correlation with job performance and intention to remain and affects them.

76-85

Authors: O. Kürşat Ergül, Hulusi Alp, Hatice Çamlıyer

Dynamic tempo, monotonous life aiming at branching and insufficient physical activity depending on technology have been one of the biggest problems of people and societies of today.In solving the inactivity problems at issue,it is important for the children and the young to be physically educated in order to make them cope with their problems.In this respect,our aim is to determine the interest and attendance level of university youth in the recreation activities of sports in terms of presenting analytical solutions to problems. Our research includes 11195 students studying Economics, Business and Engineering at the department of Ege, Celal Bayar and İzmir University of Economics during the semester between the years 2006–2007. The sampling of the study, on the other hand, is composed of 521 students, selected through a simple random sampling among those students, 335 of whom are males and 186 are females. In this study, the questionaire form prepared by the researchers has been used. The data obtained were evaluated ın the SPSS programe. In the statistical analysis, descriptive statistics, crosstabulation and Ki-square analysis were used. The significance level was considered as p<0.05 in the study. This study results in its ability to experts at the University of Sports organized recreational activities, facility, said that the lack of necessary equipment and sports fields and harmonious functioning. Of the 521 students included in the research, 228 of them (%43.76) stated that they dealt with sports durıng theır childhood and had the sufficient data about it in sports lessons at school. Keywords: Recreation, Leisure time, Sports, Unıversity youth, Leisure time training

97-106

Authors: Egem Zağralı, Atilla Akbaba

This study aims to present the attractiveness level of local food for tourists visiting İzmir Peninsula. Within the scope of this study, a field study was done on foreign tourists and domestic tourists visiting İzmir Peninsula (n=430) and data obtained from ideas and perceptions of tourists were examined. As a result of this study, local food did not play a determinant role in tourists’ destination choice of the peninsula; however they enjoyed the local food and there was a lack of promotion and advertising.