Bakıt TURDUMAMBETOV

Article | 2014 | International Journal of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences2 ( 6 )

Kyrgyzstan as the post-soviet state is a blank spot on the map of international tourism. Though 94 % of the territory of the country are occupied with Tien Shan Mountains with unique touristic resources as Issyk-Kul and hospitable Kyrgyz people that keeps the disappearing way of life of ancient nomads. However, findings of this study show that the negative information due to two revolutions (2005 & 2010) on a destination spread in mass media can give a positive marketing effect. In paper, potential of the touristic resources of the Kyrgyzstan were defined and exploitation processes in market economy conditions were studied. - Keywo . . .rds: Kyrgyzstan, tourism development, potential of the touristic resources, priorities in mountain tourism development, tourism sector management More less

Fazıl ŞENOL

Article | 2015 | International Journal of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences3 ( 3 )

Kyrgyzstan is a country which might be different from any other country in terms of its tourism. However, the advancement and development of tourism in a certain country is proportional to the employment of educated and trained workers. Thus, tourism can bring benefits to the state economy unless the employees of this field get high quality and specialization education. The goal of this research is defining specialization education level and current issues of employees in the field of hospitality industry which is an important subfield of tourism. The research identifies the problems of workers employed in the hospitality industry o . . .f the country and develops proposals concerning the measures that should be taken in order to upgrade the quality of this service. Data collected from the employees in different departments of 4-and 5-star hotels in Bishkek, capital city of Kyrgyzstan, show that %63 of them are university graduates and only %23 of them have education related to tourism. In addition, there search presents that %53 of the employees believe that their administration is reluctant concerning the internship and training their employees. Therefore, there is a need for legal regulations that identify the standards for the employees in the mentioned sector, in order to improve tourism and service quality. – Keywords: kyrgyzstan, educated employee, tourism, accommodation secto More less