Handbook of research methods for tourism and hospitality management / edited by Robin Nunkoo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Nunkoo, Robin, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of research methods in management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality industry--Research--Methodology.

Hospitality industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (584 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.

Summary:

For the current multidisciplinary community of tourism and hospitality scholars, support for research methods has been disparate and uneven. In this Handbook, renowned experts fulfil a pressing need to outline, gather and resolve methodological issues within tourism and hospitality into one original, global and comprehensive work. With over 40 chapters by leading researchers, this Handbook allows for the exploration of new innovative ideas and presents future challenges in the field. Sharing their trusted methods and previous successes and failures, the authors cover various quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods approaches, including sampling and knowledge transfer. Sections also explore the foundations of research and wider debates in tourism and hospitality, such as ethical issues and climate change. Compiling the most up-to-date methods from global research, this Handbook will be a key companion for post-graduate students. Established researchers of hospitality and tourism will find this Handbook to be an excellent concise read to assist in their continuing research.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Foundations of tourism and hospitality research

1. The state of research methods in tourism and hospitality / Robin Nunkoo

2. Positivism: viewing tourism and hospitality knowledge objectively / Girish Prayang

3. Constructionism: the making of meaning in tourism and hospitality research / Tom Griffin

4. Postmodernism: progressing research in tourism and hospitality / Philip F. Xie

5. Critical inquiry in tourism and hospitality research / Heather Mair

6. Existential phenomenology: understanding tourists' experiences / Sandhiya Goolaup and Cecilia Soler

7. Understanding theory and theoretical contribution / Ekaterina Sorokina and Youcheng Wang

8. Theory building and evaluation in tourism research / Ekaterina Sorokina and Youcheng Wang

9. Managing the spatialities of fieldwork and tourism / C. Michael Hall

Part II: Qualitative research methods

10. Using ethnographic and participatory approaches in tourism and hospitality research / Nicholas Wise

11. On the use of meta-theory in grounded investigations: in principle and practice in hospitality and tourism research / Tyler S. Stumpf and Christopher B. Califf

12. Building knowledge from the tourism field: the grounded theory approach / Alain Decrop and Julie Masset

13. Using participant observation with socially constructed grounded theory method to explore on-site guest and visitor behaviour / Vern Biaett

14. Narrative analysis and tourism research / Tom Griffin

15. Sensual Quasi-Q-Sort (SQQS): enriching qualitative hospitality and tourism research via the human senses / Alfred Ogle

16. Falling on deaf ears: tourism research and audio methods / Martin Trandberg Jensen

17. The use of projective techniques to circumvent socially desirable responses or reveal the subconscious / Ann Hindley and Xavier Font

18. Examining gastronomic experiences using auto-driven photo-elicitation / Bill J. Gregorash

19. Personal construct theory and the repertory test in destination image research / Steven Pike

20. Findings from the treasure chest: conducting archival research in tourism and hospitality / Susann Power

21. Netnography as a new research method in tourism studies: a meta-review of journal articles published between 2005 and 2015 / Jing (Bill) Xu and Mao-Ying Wu

Part III: Quantitative research methods

22. Administering face-to-face structured questionnaires in tourism research / Antonio Mario Oliveri

23. Social desirability bias in ethical decision making research: an application of conjoint analysis / Sheree-Ann Adams, Davina Stanford and Xavier Font

24. Histogram-based colour image analysis on tourism photography / Eerang Park

25. Application of normative theory and methods in recreation and tourism / Robert E. Manning

26. Benchmarking in tourism research: comparing and improving / Elke Hermans

27. Experimental research in tourism: examining changes to destination perception with film-induced tourism / Eugene Thomlinson

28. Secondary data modeling in tourism and hospitality research / B. Seetanah

29. Application Of Partial Least Squares Based Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) in hospitality research / Faizan Ali, Woody G. Kim and Cihan Cobanoglu

Part IV: Mixed methods research

30. Mixed methods in tourism: philosophical assumptions and key research design issues / Girish Prayang

31. Combining qualitative and quantitative research: semiotics, structuralism and content analysis / Leanne White

32. Conducting mixed methods in tourism and hospitality management: applications in competitive strategy, management systems and sustainability practices / Jose<U+00cc><U+0081> F. Molina-Azori<U+00cc><U+0081>n, Xavier Font, Jorge Pereira-Moliner, Eva M. Pertusa-Ortega and Juan J. Tari<U+00cc><U+0081>

33. Quantitative and qualitative content analysis / Michael Hall

34. Applying case study methodology to tourism research / Sandra De Urioste-Stone, William J. McLaughlin, John Daigle and Jessica P. Fefer

35. Research methodology choice in serious leisure in renaissance festival tourism / Elizabeth T Coberly and Susan L. Slocum

36. Climate change and tourism research in South Africa: prospects and obstacles for mixed-method approaches / Gijsbert Hoogendoorn and Jennifer Fitchett

37. Bringing cross-disciplinarity to the fore: a methodological framework for leadership in destination management organisations / Dean Hristov and Haywantee Ramkissoon

38. Measuring innovation in tourism: issues from the Western Cape experience / Irma Booyens

Part V: Other research issues

39. Sampling design in tourism and hospitality research / V. Teeroovengadum and R. Nunkoo

40. Methodological issues in cross-cultural tourism and hospitality research / Frederic Dimanche and Lidia Andrades Caldito

41. Ethical issues in tourism and hospitality research / Gianna Moscardo

42. Child-centred approaches in tourism and hospitality research: methodological opportunities and ethical challenges / Antonia Canosa, Anne Graham and Erica Wilson

43. Tourism research and knowledge transfer / Lisa Ruhanen and Chris Cooper

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78536-628-9