The relationship between the criteria and of a professional tourist guides' performance and working conditions: Antalya sample

To introduce a country is the duty of the tourist guides who spend lots of time with tourists. Touist guides who are the volunteer tourism delegates are showing their performance to introduce the country. This work has been searching the relationship between the working conditions of the guides and their performance and also this work is very important for the guides. The aim of this thesis is to emphasize the relationship between the working conditions of the professional guides their performance criterion. Also whether there is a statistical difference in these guides perception depending on theirdemographic and professional features will be examined. Antalya is one of the most important tourism centers of Turkey and also it is one of the most attractive city for the tourists. The ones participating in this work are the professional guides who are bonded to the Antalya Guides Chamber. By assesing the performance criterion of these professional guides their working conditions has been examined. The relationship itself and the wayof it has been tried to make clear. According to the result of the research a positive and quite meaningful relationship has been found between the subdimensions of the working conditions and also the subdimensions of the affect of these conditions and the subdimensions of the performance criterion. But no relationship has been found between the negative things that the work causes and presentation and the objectivity and also no relationship has been found between the negative things that the work causes and the preparation for the tour. Keywords: Professional Tourist Guide, Working Conditions, Performance Criteria