DETERMINATION OF THE TRAVEL MOTIVATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Factors such as transportation, communication and increase in leisure time provided an increase of the facilities of travel to every group of tourists as well as the university students . The fact that the number of young people in our country is very high makes studying this group's travel motivation very important. The purpose of this study is to learn the travel motivations of the university students. In the review of the literature , the lack of studies on this subject in our country is noteworthy and on the topics studied such as where student stay during their trips and which sources of information they prefer, no studies have been encountered. The research aims to provide data for both the literature on the travel behaviors of the university students and a resource study especially to the tourism enterprises operating in the travel field. The research was conducted by applying questionnaires to 305 students at Emet Vocational College. According to the demographics of the students, their travel preferences, push and pull motivations were learned in consideration of the obtained results. It is striking that there are no significant differences between departments, genders and ages on travel motivations. On the other hand, interesting data have been obtained such as the fact that most of the information sources that students use for their travels are associated with the internet and the airline was not used at al