Future career choices of undergraduates of faculty of tourism and hotels, Minia university

الملخص EN

This paper addresses the self-assessment, the future careers, and the employment obstacles of undergraduates ot faculty ot tourism and hotels, Minia University.

A quantitative method is used to collect the required data.

The sample consisted of 264 undergraduates; all of them were in the final year.

The researcher tested five hypotheses to identify the impact of the academic department, demographics, undergraduates' skills, on the undergraduates' future career choices and to declare the statistically significant differences of future career choices between the undergraduates according to the academic department and the demographics.

The researcher used SPSS V.

16.0 to analyze the data, and statistical analysis included Cronbach’s alpha, linear regression, multiple regression, T-test, analysis of variance, and multi comparisons (LSD).

Empirical findings showed that most of the respondents (65.5%) see that the rate of the potential employment of their degree is very poor and poor, 49.7% of them see that they cant talk and write English well, 31.8% of the respondents plan to have career in travel agents and flight companies, and 47% of the undergraduates believed that political conditions is the obstacle will face them to have their future careers.

The gender, academic department, professional and practical skills have significant influence on future career choices of undergraduates of Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Minia University