The Approach of Young People to Travel Safety
Journal Title: Journal of Tourism and Services - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 8
Abstract
The aim of the research was to determine how students/respondents perceive security on their travels in Europe. The respondents belong to two different study programmes, one focusing on the field of security (Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor - FCJS) and the other on the field of tourism (Vocational College for Catering and Tourism - HCCT). Our main presumption was that students of the two institutions developed a different attitude towards travel security since their studies focus on two substantively different academicprofessional fields. We examined their attitude towards security factors such as: security climate, self-protection and collective security. In our research we included a sample of 100 students/respondents. We used an instrument in the form of a questionnaire for the quantitative measurement of responses on the interval scale from1 to 5 Likert-type. To portray the result of the research we also used various statistical indicators in the computer programme SPSS such as: arithmetic mean, Mann-Whitney test, frequency distribution of responses, where independent variables are displayed. The findings suggest that the students/respondents attitude towards safety and their expectations on individual elements of all three security factors differ in the two target groups. The expectations of students/respondents of Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security regarding the implementation and provision of security are higher compared to students/respondents of Vocational College for Catering and Tourism. Respondents have different experiences with security on their travels, as the number of travels varies quite substantially between students. Both institutions can use the results of the research in the evaluation processes of their study programmes. On the basis of the results of the research it can be substantiated that the field and content of study have an impact on the students’ attitude to elements of security while travelling. The findings are intended to all researchers in the field of security and tourism, as well as designers of study programmes of these two study fields.
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Janez Mekinc, Sebastjan Repnik
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