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When considering the necessities of this age, critical thinking is a primary skill that tourism students should be qualified in. Investigation on the critical thinking disposition of tourism students and emotional intelligence, which is an effective factor on it, can guide tourism academics on how to provide students with effective critical thinking. In this regard, this study aimed to determine the effect of the emotional intelligence levels of the undergraduate tourism education students on their critical thinking disposition. A survey was utilized as data collection tool, and it was administrated on a total of 471 students from undergraduate tourism schools of 5 different universities, including 3 faculties and 2 colleges. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t test, analysis of variance and Pearson correlation analysis. The research concluded that students' emotional intelligence levels and critical thinking dispositions were quite above the medium level. In addition, a positive and strong correlation of r=0.671 was specified between emotional intelligence levels and critical thinking dispositions of the students. It was also found out that students' emotional intelligence levels and critical thinking dispositions showed significant differences according to the variables of gender, academic success and monthly expense.

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