I hope this message finds you well. This is a gentle reminder to complete the questionnaire for my PhD study. If you have already completed it, thank you very much for your participation. If not, please take a moment to fill it out at your earliest convenience. The title of my study is “Curriculum design and teaching for a dynamic tourism industry: Challenges facing lecturers at KZN universities and TVET colleges”. The main purpose of this study is to examine the challenges facing tourism lecturers in the KZN universities and TVET Colleges that offer tourism courses in preparing students for the dynamic tourism industry.

The study target population consists of all tourism lecturers. I have received full ethics approval from the DUT Institutional Research Ethics Committee to conduct this study, as per the attached. I have also attached a letter of information and a consent form.

The online survey should take you approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. Your participation is completely voluntary. The participants' identities will be kept confidential during the data analysis phase and in the reporting phase of the study. The participant’s responses cannot be linked back to him/her, as their details are not stored in the system

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Simphiwe Dube