Abstract\\nThe aim of this study is to review the tourism students� knowledge and experience on working in tourism industry. 97 Tourism students, who completed at least one compulsory internship, consist of the population of this research. In this study, quantitative research method was used and research data was collected by questionnaire technique. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was employed for the purpose of data entry, manipulation, and analysis Information about the tourism sector and the comparison of observations on the subscales based on experience; the t test (Student t test), the number of independent variables being more than two, the variance analysis (ANOVA) was used. Furthermore, the relationship between the subscales was determined by Pearson\\\'s correlation test. When the findings of this study are reviewed, it is observed that the students, who have no experience in tourism sector, are more discarded than the students, who have experience. Moreover, even though they get information about the working conditions of tourism sector, the students� opinions about the Nature of Work Subscale, who mention that they would prefer this department, is more positive than the students, who mention that they would not prefer this department.\\n\\n� 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.\\nPeer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 9th International Conference on Theory and application of Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perception.\\nKeywords:Tourism; tourism industry; tourism education; students

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