Minimum turnover analysis in Turkish tourism sector

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to detect and analyze the minimum turnover in Turkish tourism sector regarding sociodemographic, professional, business and geography specialties of the workers. The ratio of the sum of the staff who changes only once in a year in one position in one business and the total number of the staff who work during the same period is expressed with minimum turnover rate and a new perspective is introduced to the literature. In the study, data belonging to a total of 5764 wageworkers who work at lodging companies, travel agencies and tour operators with food and beveragefirms are used. Data are imported from the data set of 2011 Household Labor Survey (HLS) from Turkish Statistical Institute and are subjected to Cross-tabs, Chi-Square, Annova and T-test analysis by SPSS software program. It is found that there are significantdifferences between turnover rate and sociodemographic, professional, business and geographical characteristics.