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The aim of this study is to examine and categorize the dissertations made in higher education institutions in Turkey. In the study, doctoral dissertations in all fields of tourism topics in Electronic Thesis Bank are examined. Accordingly, a total of 52 doctoral dissertations were found in the Thesis center between 2014-2018 in the Department of Tourism Management, open to access. The theses were divided into groups according to their fields and then their situation in the literature was examined. In the first stage of the analysis, doctoral dissertations about tourism were classified according to their fields, subjects and participants. In the next step, the dissertations were evaluated with content analyzes. It is determined that doctoral dissertations are made in six different fields related to tourism and most doctoral dissertation is written about management and organization.
ŞALVARCI et al. (Sun,) studied this question.