International Journal of Human Studies Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi ISSN: 2636-8641 Cilt/Volume 1 Sayı/Issue 2 Yıl/Year: 2018 Gönderim: 19-10-2018 – Kabul: 25-12-2018 The Role of Demographic Characteristics on Nepotism Perception: A Study on the Employees of Hospitality Businesses in Trabzon Cengiz Gazeloğlu 1 Eren Erkılıç 2 Engin Aytekin 3 Abstract Starting from the very early stages of recruitment, nepotism can be expressed as some employees’ being favored or having an unfair promotion at work regardless of their career, knowledge, skills, level of education, experience or other qualifications due to their relation with the management team. The perception of nepotism is one of the major problems encountered in both public and private businesses. In this context, the aim of this study is to find out whether the nepotism perceptions of the employees of the hospitality businesses 1 Cengiz Gazeloğlu, Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Science and Literature, cengizgazeloglu@sdu.edu.tr 2 Eren Erkılıç, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Ardeşen Tourism Faculty, eren.erkilic@erdogan.edu.tr 3 Engin Aytekin, Afyon Kocatepe University, School of Foreign Languages, eaytekin@aku.edu.tr