The state of qualitative tourism research

Riley, Roger W.; Love, Lisa L.

doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(99)00068-7

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“…Qualitative research methods nowadays are widely used in tourism research e.g. Esterby-Smith et al (2002), Miles & Huberman (1994), and Walle (1997) in tourism research, anthropologists and sociologists have used qualitative research (Decrop, 1999;Riley & Love, 2000). When it comes to economy, geography, psychology or marketing, researchers tend to use quantitative approaches (Decrop, 1999).…”

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Community Perceptions toward Economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism on Local Communities

Aref¹,

Redzuan²,

Gill³

2009

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This paper investigates the community perceptions toward economic and environmental impacts of tourism in Shiraz, Iran. Special focus is on the differences in perceptions between the Old and New Districts of Shiraz. The study demonstrates that there are broadly similar views among the community leaders and community residents from both districts of Shiraz. In fact, a high percentage of the answers obtained highlighted positive aspects environmental and economic impacts of tourism toward local communities. According to the survey, the strongest and favourable perceptions toward tourism impacts are found to be linked with environmental aspects and while economic matters are found to be the least favourable in terms of the perceived impacts on tourism. T-test analysis of the study indicates that there is no significant difference between community leaders' perceptions in both districts of Shiraz City. Results drew from discussion with the target group show that the community residents have positive perceptions toward economic and environmental impacts of tourism with only minor differences with each other.

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Community Perceptions toward Economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism on Local Communities

Aref¹,

Redzuan²,

Gill³

2009

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“…Mixed methods research may strengthen the epistemology of tourism. Positivist traditions dominate tourism with set parameters to conduct research in many topics (Riley & Love, 2000) and with "blurring of entrenched truisms in reductionist thinking and scientism comes the challenge of developing new ways of thinking, description and knowledge construction" (Jamal & Hollinshead, 2001:66). This paper does not have the space to debate different ontologies, epistemologies and subsequent methodologies of research paradigms, already studied by Azzopardi and Nash (2014), but instead focuses on explaining and exemplifying how mixed methods research produces more holistic results than single method studies do (Lane, 2009 …”

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“…Bramwell & Lane, 2012;Buckley, 2012) rather than the spread of research methods. Exceptions include Riley and Love (2000) who evaluated the use of qualitative research, Baloglu and Assante (1999) on quantitative research, and Xiao and Smith (2006) on case studies. Mason, Augustyn, and Seakhoa-King (2010) reflected on designing an exploratory qualitative phase informing, sequentially, a more detailed, larger quantitative phase, and Azzopardi and Nash (2014) examined the ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions of some alternative philosophical paradigms behind choosing mixed methods for tourism studies.…”

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Mixed methods in sustainable tourism research: an analysis of prevalence, designs and application in JOST (2005–2014)

Molina‐Azorín

Font

2015

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This article analyses the use of mixed methods in papers published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism (JOST) over a ten year period, 2005 to 2014. The main purpose of this paper is to examine how and why mixed methods research is being used in the sustainable tourism field. First, a content analysis of the articles shows that the purposes are primarily expansion and development of the results, and less often triangulation or complementarity. Sequential designs are slightly more popular than simultaneous designs, with qualitative research preceding the quantitative element. In the majority of cases, both the quantitative and qualitative methods are equivalent in importance, yet where one is dominant this is usually the quantitative part. Second, we contextualise the content analysis by exemplifying the use of mixed methods with selected papers and interviews with their authors to reflect on the practices, reasons, strengths and weaknesses of using mixed methods. We argue that mixed methods provide sustainable tourism academics with more opportunities for pragmatic transformative research for societal change, and increases research reliability in relation to social desirability bias, stakeholder comparisons and interdisciplinarity.

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“…Given the limited knowledge of firm-level capacity building through collaborative partnership with the government, a qualitative inductive research approach was considered most appropriate for this study (Birkinshaw, Brannen, & Tung, 2011;Riley & Love, 2000). To identify informants, we utilized a variety of approaches encompassing the direct approach, networking, and snowballing approach (direct referrals), which are highly recommended when exploring such issues (see Acquaah, 2007;Biernacki & Waldorf, 1981;Noy, 2008).…”

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Business and government interdependence in emerging economies: Insights from hotels in Ghana

Amankwah‐Amoah

Debrah

Honyenuga

et al. 2017

Journal of Tourism Research

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Although social science research is replete with scholarly works on capacity building, relatively few studies have focused on how government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises in emerging economies. We seek to fill the lacuna in our understanding by examining how a government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises.The study adopted a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with hotel owners, employees, and managers, as well as government officials in Ghana to examine the issue. We identified three unique stages through which such capacity-building initiatives unfold encompassing diagnosing, renewal, and customer centricity. The study revealed that capacity building through collaborative partnership was partly motivated by desire to overcome societal resistance to services seen as "tainted." The concluding section outlines a number of theoretical and practical implications. KEYWORDSAfrica, capacity building, Ghana, government, hotels | INTRODUCTIONOver the past four decades, accelerated globalization has been accompanied by the increasing contribution of services to the global economy (Jayaraman & Luo, 2006;Vargo & Lusch, 2004). In parallel, many governments have formulated and implemented industrial policies geared towards opening up their economies to capture the benefits of globalization. In many developing countries, capacity building is one such policy (Farazmand, 2009;Tjosvold, Peng, Chen, & Su, 2008). In general, such policy is consistent with findings from prior studies that have highlighted the view that governments can play a role in firm-level capacity building (Cammett, 2007;Cull, Navajas, Nishida, & Zeiler, 2015;Farazmand, 2009;Ha & Kang, 2015;Shao, Hernández, & Liu, 2015;Tjosvold et al., 2008). In many instances, governments in collaboration with companies, industries, customers, and suppliers have engaged in capacity-building initiatives to create a sustainable business model (see also Suntikul & Dorji, 2015).Yet a closer look at the existing literature suggests that, despite some research on business and government interdependence and collaboration (Tian, Shi, Hafsi, & Tian, 2017;Tjosvold et al., 2008;Wong, Wei, & Tjosvold, 2015) and capacity development (e.g., Farazmand, 2009;Stephens et al., 2017;Victurine, 2000), our understanding of capacity building through collaborative partnership between government and business remains severely limited (see Shao et al., 2015). By capacity building through collaborative partnerships, we are referring to a situation where multiple stakeholders are mobilized and resources marshalled towards building firms' capabilities and fulfilling their role within the national economy.Against this backdrop, the main purpose of this study is to examine how a government can induce capacity building among privately owned enterprises in an emerging economy. We focus on Ghana and the hotel industry for a number of reasons. Since the late 1950s, when Ghana gained independence, it has been touted as a "Bea...

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The state of qualitative tourism research

Cited by 301 publications

References 45 publications

Community Perceptions toward Economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism on Local Communities

Community Perceptions toward Economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism on Local Communities

Mixed methods in sustainable tourism research: an analysis of prevalence, designs and application in JOST (2005–2014)

Business and government interdependence in emerging economies: Insights from hotels in Ghana

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