Tourism and tourist guidance after a novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

As in many sectors the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic (Covid-19) is expected to have a major impact on the tourism sector It is possible for tourists, who are afraid of traveling during the pandemic, to have new expectations after the pandemic These possible expectations of tourists will cause new developments and changes in tourism sector The tourist guidance profession is among the professions that will be affected by these developments and changes For this reason, the aim of this study is to examine the possible changes in tourism and tourist guidance profession after the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) from professional tourist guides perspective For this purpose, open-ended questionnaire technique, which is one of the qualitative data collection methods, was preferred The form consisting of ten open-ended questions containing possible effects of the pandemic on tourism, tourist behaviors and tourist guidance profession was sent to the participants by e-mail 109 professional tourist guides were reached by this method In the findings of the research, the data obtained from 109 tourist guides will be subjected to content analysis Based on the findings, it is aimed to make predictions about possible changes in tourism and tourist guidance profession In the analysis results;hygiene, individual travel, small groups, social distance and active management codes have been determined as codes with the highest frequency