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Curriculum criticisms have an important place among the studies addressing educational problems in the tourist guiding literature. Nevertheless, notably few studies discuss the expressed issues along with a curriculum proposal. Using the method of content analysis, this research seeks answers to the questions of when, by whom, why, and how the proposals presented in the literature so far were developed. To that end, initially studies with curriculum proposals were determined by document analysis; subsequently, the proposed curricula were submitted to content analysis by means of the research-specific “curriculum analysis form”. The findings of the analysis reveal that four curriculum proposals, namely, two papers and two master's theses, were developed over a period of nearly thirty years, and that there are significant differences among those curricula in terms of the instruction groups they include as well as of the issues they aim to resolve. In addition, the results show that the research-specific "curriculum analysis form" is useful as a tool that allows comparing different curricula with each other. Accordingly, the outlines of an analytical framework that can contribute to further discussions have been determined.

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