Examining The Awareness of Crypto Currency Types by Tourism Educated Individuals: Case of Bitcoin

Abstract

Globalization and high technological applications that shape modern life, it creates unique needs in the financial world and payment methods and leads to changes in the ways in which money is used. While the change has spread the use of virtual and crypto money, it offers signs that it will gain more place in life in the future. This makes the knowledge of young people, who grow up in the technology-dominated world and will be one of the main determinants of the use and management of money in the future, important for predicting the future use of money. The main purpose of the research is to determine the knowledge of tourism education individuals about Bitcoin money type and their use of this money. In addition, the research aims to determine the views of the participants about how the Crypto currency use will be shaped in the future. In this context, data collected 214 participants from Anadolu University Faculty of Tourism and were evaluated with descriptive analysis and difference analysis. The results show that although the participants know Bitcoin, they do not have a deep knowledge of the money and its usage areas and that they provide the opinion that the crypto money will be used in the most purchase and trade transactions in the future. In this context, suggestions were given to the researchers who will deal with crypto money in the context of tourism sector in the future and to entrepreneurs who tend to use the crypto money in their enterprises