Key concepts in tourism research /
David Botterill & Vincent Platenkamp.
- Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2012.
- viii, 190 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How to Use This Book Action Research Auto-Ethnography Case Study Constructionism Content Analysis Critical Realism Critical Theory Deduction Delphi Method Document Analysis Empiricism Epistemology Ethical Practice Ethnomethodology Evaluation Research Experiment Feminism Figurationalism Grounded Theory Hermeutics Interview/Focus Group Modeling Narrative Paradigm Phenomenology Positivism Post-Colonialism Postmodernism Realism Repertory Grid Survey Symbolic Interactionism Visual Methods.
Contending that tourism research is mainly social research and that the social sciences should be the research foundation, Botterill, a freelance academic and higher education consultant associated with tourism centers and departments at the U. of Westminster and U. of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK, and NHTV U. of Applied Sciences Breda, and Platenkamp (Centre for Cross-Cultural Understanding, NHTV U. of Applied Science Breda, the Netherlands) select concepts based on Anglo-American and European social science traditions to show graduate students how these concepts have been applied in tourism research. They provide definitions and a guide to the relevance of a concept to a research project; applications to various topics, with examples drawn from tourism research journals; and the main ideas and techniques associated with the concept, as well as its historical development, philosophical pretext, and principal claims, and a short critique of it. Arranged in alphabetical order, concepts include ethnomethodology, hermeneutics, interview/focus groups, narrative, phenomenology, repertory grid, survey, symbolic interactionism, case study, content and document analysis, action research, the Delphi Method, evaluation research, grounded theory, visual methods, feminism, and postmodernism.