The Effect of Tourism and the Educational Level of Parents and Students on the Enrollment in the Hotel and Tourism in the Schools of Amman Governorate

Abstract

This study aims at knowing the tourism impact on both educational level of parents and students on enrollment in  hotel and tourism education. Also, it used a sample which consists of students in the branch of hotel and tourism education in the schools of Amman Governorate. There were employed two methods to collect information and data for attaining the study goals. The first one is utilizing a written questionnaire which was distributed on a sample of 300 students studying hotel education in the first secondary class. The second method was based on collecting data from books, researches and published researches.  Thus, descriptive statistics were exploited to extract the mean and standard deviation of this study. Moreover, the writer used the Kolmogorov -smirnov test to examine the data.The educational level of parents, academics and students in hotels and tourism has been  affected on students who study  hotel and tourism in the secondary stage. This means that the educational level plays a vital role in the proportion of students studying hotel and tourism branch in secondary school (Alhroot, 2018).Therefore, the advices recommend the adoption of the study in hotel and tourism education on the desire of the student and motivate them. Consequently, it will give the opportunity to study at the university as a professional and technical. Thus, in order to create job opportunities for graduate students in hotel and tourism vocational and technical education.

Keywords: Tourism, Students, Parents, Educational Level, Enrollment, Hotel, Amman

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-26-03

Publication date:September 30^th 2019