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This paper critiques the sterile, formulaic, and positivist tendencies in hospitality and tourism qualitative research, exposing several dangerous misconceptions including the false gold standard of data saturation, the mistreatment of subjectivity as a flaw, and the notion that qualitative research can be adequately taught in a single course alone. The author concludes with the idea of living qualitatively, a mode of inquiry that prizes becoming, resists sterile simplification, and centers epistemic humility—a process of getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again.
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The Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (JoHLSTE) is the leading international, peer-reviewed educational journal for this subject grouping. Its aims are to: a) Promote, enhance and disseminate research, good practice and innovation in all aspects of higher education in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism and Events to its prime audience including teachers, researchers, employers, and policy makers. b) Encourage greater understanding, links and collaboration across its constituent fields. JoHLSTE is designed to have maximum impact through it being available on-line, fully archived and peer-reviewed. JoHLSTE is divided into seven sections: Editorial; Academic Papers; Practice Papers, Perspectives, Comments and Rejoinders, Research Notes and Reports and Education Resource Reviews.
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