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In 2017, Philippine Statistics Authority reported that tourism contributed 12.2 percent to the country’s gross domestic product amounting to PHP1.929 trillion. The study assessed hospitality and tourism students’ ability to logically analyze assumptions, arguments, deductions, inferences, and interpret information in various scenarios. The study concluded that among the various critical thinking indicators, Inference, Interpretation, and Argument are positively moderate to strongly associated with the students’ total scores. The factor Deduction and Assumptions are positively correlated with the dependent variable only slightly moderate. Self-Rating association with critical thinking did not establish strong correlation. Comparison of means showed that Gender did not significantly differentiate the scores on all indicators. On the basis of Course, analysis of variance showed that critical scores were differentiated excepting the variable Inference. Total scores indicated differences given the different Year Level. BSTM students showed a higher critical thinking scores in almost all indicators except Deductions.