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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the beliefs of employees who work in different positions in the hotels in Edirne, Turkey regarding unethical applications.Design/methodology/approachThe survey method was used to determine the hotel personnel's unethical behaviors in the process of the service operation in hotels. The questionnaire was mainly developed from a Varinli study which was applied to the employees' job‐related ethics.FindingsThe findings have been evaluated and analyzed using the SPSS 11.5. The mean value and the t‐test were applied for the analysis. It was aimed to determine the beliefs of the hotel personnel's about unethical behaviors according to the 20 statements related to the topic. It was understood that the respondents significantly did not accept unethical behaviors that were scaled with 20 statements.Research limitations/implicationsSome statements in the questionnaire were either changed or extended, considering all the hotels in Edirne. The questionnaire was applied in 15 hotels from 9‐13 March in 2009 and excluded employees who were not on the premises during the process. After a week 160 valid questionnaires were either collected from or posted by those concerned.Practical implicationsThe research aims to investigate the job‐related unethical beliefs of hotel employees. The housekeeping, food and beverage, and front‐office departments are mainly studied from the perspecive of the unethical applications. Nevertheless, the answers represented only the personnel's ethical beliefs. Whether they would “actually perform in such a way” in real life is difficult to verify. It is not possible to verify the employees' actual behavior compared with their answers in the questionnaire.Originality/valueThe paper is based on a Varinli study which was applied to the employees' job‐related ethics. In 2004 Varinli studied the hotel employees' beliefs regarding unethical applications in 3‐ and 4‐star hotels in Capadocia.

Local governments provide a range of local services, preserve the life and liberty of residents, creating space for democratic participation and civic dialogue, supporting market-led and environmentally sustainable local development. City branding supplies the principles for the city developing policy to sustain the local development. In other words, city branding means being powerful to face the increasing wild competition for resources, investment and tourism facilities, both for addressing crucial social issues and cultural variation. The main objective of this study is to highlight the role of local governments and to emphasize the various destinations “bodies” used in the branding process in different administration systems. Although there are many different destination branding strategies over the world, the city branding success cannot be performed without the strong participation of the local governments.

İnsan yaratılmış en değerli varlıktır ve eğitim insanların en kutsal ihtiyacıdır. Bu iki unsur bir araya geldiğinde, araştırmacılara ve bilim insanlarına büyük bir sorumluluk yüklemektedir. Bu sorumluluk yüzyıllardır kullanılan araştırma yöntemlerinde, bilgisayar teknolojilerindeki hızlı gelişmelerde, eğitim ihtiyacı ve hizmet sunumunda sürekli değişim yaratmakta ve hatta yeni bir çığır açmaktadır. Bu noktada eğitim için insanın bilgisayarla etkileşimi öğrenmede de yeni bir dönem başlatmıştır. Öğrenme işlevi aynı anda hem kitlelere ulaşmakta hem de bireysel ihtiyaçları karşılayabilmektedir. Hatta, yapay zekayla müfredat tasarımı çalışmaları başlamıştır. Bu bağlamda, makro düzeyde kitleleri ve mikro ölçekte bireyleri ilgilendiren insan bilgisayar etkileşimli açık ve uzaktan öğrenme, toplumlar için stratejik önem arz etmektedir. Proaktif yaklaşım,analitik ve algoritmik yöntemlerle açık ve uzaktan öğrenme ürün ve hizmetleri için stratejilerin belirlenmesi bu açıdan önemlidir. Bu çalışmada, insan bilgisayar etkileşimi çalışmalarındaki stratejik kavramlar, açık ve uzaktan öğrenme bağlamında tartışılmaktadır.