Study on tourist internships of university students in a private university of Encarnación, Paraguay

Abstract

In order to analyze whether belonging to an Academic Excellence Program such as Scholarship Student 5 is a variable that can be assumed as an estimator of the student's cultural capital and its incidence on the tourist behavior of the students of the UNAE Educational Complex, it was designed an analytical study, surveying 131 surveys among students, according to their membership in the Excellence Program, tourist behavior and monthly income level. The results indicate that belonging to the Scholarship program does not present significant statistical differences in terms of tourist behavior (national, international and type of landscapes: p> 0.05), on the contrary, it is still the level of monthly income, measured in Gs, the one that presents statistically significant differences (p <= 0.05) when it comes to international tourism. These results allow us to conclude that, although belonging to the Program is an indicator of Cultural Capital among the students of the Complex, it does not represent an efficient indicator when studying the tourist behavior of the student taking that capital into account. It will be necessary to continue deepening the description and analysis of variables with a better capacity to represent cultural capital and its impact on tourist behavior.