Cultural tourism research methods /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Heritage tourism > Research.; Tourism > Research.; Research.; Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Heritage.; Tourism and Travel.; Techniques and Methodology.; Audiovisual aids.; Cultural tourism.; Ethnicity.; Ethnography.; Methodology.; Qualitative techniques.; Quantitative techniques.; Tourism research.; Electronic books.
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This book discusses various quantitative and qualitative methods in cultural tourism research. The book consists of 17 articles on the traditional quantitative approach, methodological triangulation, application of the grounded theory, visual methods, grand tour approach, collage technique, multi-me...

Table of Contents:

• Developments and Perspectives in Cultural Tourism Research / Gre Richards and Wil Munsters
• The Traditional Quantitative Approach. Surveying Cultural Tourists : Lessons from the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Project / Greg Richards
• A Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches : Complementarities and Trade-offs / Marjan Melkert and Katleen Vos
• Blurring Boundaries in Cultural Tourism Research / Esther Binkhorst, Teun den Dekker and Marjan Melkert
• The Cultural Destination Experience Audit Applied to the Tourist-Historic City / Wil Munsters
• Methodological Triangulation : the Study of Visitor Behaviour at the Hungarian Open Air Museum / László Puczkó, Edit Bárd and Júlia Füzi
• Employing the Grand Tour Approach to Aid Understanding of Garden Visiting / Dorothy Fox, Jonathan Edwards and Keith Wilkes
• Multi-Method Research on Ethnic Cultural Tourism in Australia / Jock Collins, Simon Darcy and Kirrily Jordan
• Tracking the Urban Visitor : Methods for Examining Tourists' Spatial Behaviour and Visual Representations / Deborah Edwards, Tracey Dickson, Tony Griffin and Bruce Hayllar
• An Application of Grounded Theory to Cultural Tourism Research : Resident Attitudes to Tourism Activity in Santiponce / Mario Castellanos-Verdugo, Francisco J. Caro-González and M. de los Ángeles Oviedo-García
• Tales from the Field : Video and its Potential for Creating Cultural Tourism Knowledge / Tijana Rakić
• Using Photo-Based Interviews to Reveal the Significance of Heritage Buildings to Cultural Tourism Experiences / Gregory Willson and Alison McIntosh
• Measuring the Image of a Cultural Tourism Destination Through the Collage Technique / Ana M. González Fernández, María Carmen Rodríguez Santos and Miguel Cervantes Blanco
• Ethnographic Research on Cultural Tourism : An Anthropological View / Xerardo Pereiro
• From Local to Global (and Back) : Towards Glocal Ethnographies of Cultural Tourism / Noel B. Salazar
• Assembling the Socio-material Destination : An Actor-Network Approach to Cultural Tourism Studies / Carina Ren
• Methods in Cultural Tourism Research : The State of the Art / Wil Munsters and Greg Richards.