This study aims to investigate entrepreneurial intention among the Bangladeshi tourism
students. This study is quantitative in nature and questionnaire survey method is used to
obtain the information for this study. This study found that Bangladeshi tourism students
are not interested in entrepreneurship. Most of the participants want to choose their
future career as an employee in any company or organization. They are not eager to
accept risk or challenges. Although maximum respondents want to implement their tasks
innovatively, they will not choose their career as an entrepreneur. Since this study is
intention and perception based, it is possible that future research may generate different
result in relation with the change in student intention about entrepreneurship. The study
will be useful to the researchers who want to know the tourism student intention on
entrepreneurship. Further research should be preceded by providing some suggestions
and guidelines to motivate Bangladeshi tourism students to choose the entrepreneurial as
their career and this will be very beneficial for the development of the tourism sector in
Bangladesh. The findings of this study will be beneficial for practitioners who are
interested in understanding tourism student’s entrepreneurial intention. The development
of conceptual framework in this study will enrich the literature regarding the construct of
tourism student intention about entrepreneurship. This study will be useful in providing
an insight of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship as well as some factors of
entrepreneurship such risk-taking propensity, innovativeness, as well as education and
training.
