Problem Statement: The problem of this research is identifying the
difficulties that undergraduate students experience during their
internships and assessing their future intention to work in the tourism
industry.
Purpose of Study: This research aims to identify the problems
undergraduate students encounter as interns in tourism programs and to
document their views on the tourism sector after their internships. The
paper also focuses on whether the problems experienced during the
internship program affect the students’ intention to work in the tourism
business in the future.
Methods: All research constructs were measured using multiple-item, fivepoint
Likert scales. Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students from
two different universities who had completed their internships were
selected for the study Balikesir and Canakkale universities were selected
by convenience sampling, and the surveys were conducted with 330 of the
550 available students.
Findings and Results: Internship problems have four dimensions, though
from a business perspective, the problems can also be viewed from two
sub-dimensions. The findings of this study reveal that interns are given
only very basic employee rights, that interns are viewed as cheap labor,