In this study, the job advertisements for tourism enterprises in Turkey were examined by content analysis method. The data were collected by using 24 job advertisements published in two Turkish newspapers and 1397 in four Turkish websites. Thus, the database of the research for tourism enterprises includes of 1421 job advertisements. According to the findings, the first leading three cities in advertisements are İstanbul, Antalya and Muğla. In advertisemenst, its remarkable that the large number of city hotels stand out in relief. At the hotel enterprises in which the job advertisements are made mostly are the departments of front office, food and beverage and housekeeping. It has been found out that the advertisements in the study remain rather weak with regard to the facilities that the candidate employees are provided, some qualities that the candidate employees are supposed to have, and the contact information of the enterprises.

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The changes occur each passing day in demands and expectations of individuals participating to tourism movements lead to formation of new market fields in tourism industry. In this context, gastronomy tourism is regarded as one of the new trends in international tourism. Having hosted a large number of civilizations throughout the history, Turkey is accepted today as one the countries having the richest cuisines in the world. However, the efforts to transfer that gastronomic diversity to future generations are still limited in Turkey. In this study, gastronomy museums were focused on and a gastronomy museum was suggested to be established for Gümüşhane province. It is expected that the determinations revealed in the study will be a model also for other regions of Turkey and lead the way to transfer the gastronomic assets of Turkey to future generations.

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