The Impact of Tourism Oriented Vocational Training Courses on Employability and Wages: The Case of Antalya

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of tourism oriented training courses on employment andwages in Antalya. To achieve this end, a sample of 300 people, covering both research and control groups,was selected at random from the database of İŞKUR. These groups were further grouped on the basis ofgender, and the differentials between men and women were analyzed. The impact of vocational trainingcourses on employment was assessed by the Logit regression, while the impact of courses on wages wasassessed by the regression model. In general, it was found that attending to any of the tourism orientedvocational training courses affected the employability positively, whereas it affected the wages negatively inthe long term. On the basis of gender differentials, it was found that the tourism oriented training coursesaffected the employability of men positively, whereas there was no such a positive effect on theemployability of women. Furthermore, attendance to the courses affected the wages of women positively,whereas it affected those of men negatively.