Cultural Tourism Research Methods

Author： Richards   G.; Munsters   W.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9781845935191

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781845935184

Subject： F590.7 各类型旅游

Keyword： Business and Economics Industries Hospitality Travel and Tourism Tourism Industry

Language： ENG

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Description

The consumption of culture is one of the most important aspects of tourism activity. Cultural tourism includes experiencing local culture, traditions and lifestyle, participation in arts-related activities, and visits to museums, monuments and heritage sites. This book reviews a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methods applied to the field of cultural tourism, including surveys, mystery tourist visits, visitor tracking, grand tour narratives, collage, researcher-created video, photo-based interviews, ethnographic and actor-network approaches. It provides a practical guide on how to conduct research as well as a discussion and evaluation of the methods.

Chapter

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Tables, Boxes, Figures and Appendices

PART I: THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURAL TOURISM RESEARCH

1 Developments and Perspectives in Cultural Tourism Research

2 The Traditional Quantitative Approach. Surveying Cultural Tourists: Lessons from the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Project

3 A Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: Complementarities and Trade-offs

4 Blurring Boundaries in Cultural Tourism Research

PART II: MIXED QUALITATIVE–QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES

5 The Cultural Destination Experience Audit Applied to the Tourist-historic City

6 Methodological Triangulation: the Study of Visitor Behaviour at the Hungarian Open Air Museum

7 Employing the Grand Tour Approach to Aid Understanding of Garden Visiting

8 Multi-method Research on Ethnic Cultural Tourism in Australia

9 Tracking the Urban Visitor: Methods for Examining Tourists’ Spatial Behaviour and Visual Representations

PART III: QUALITATIVE APPROACHES

10 An Application of Grounded Theory to Cultural Tourism Research: Resident Attitudes to Tourism Activity in Santiponce

11 Tales from the Field: Video and its Potential for Creating Cultural Tourism Knowledge

12 Using Photo-based Interviews to Reveal the Significance of Heritage Buildings to Cultural Tourism Experiences

13 Measuring the Image of a Cultural Tourism Destination through the Collage Technique

PART IV: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

14 Ethnographic Research on Cultural Tourism: an Anthropological View

15 From Local to Global (and Back): Towards Glocal Ethnographies of Cultural Tourism

16 Assembling the Socio-material Destination: an Actor–Network Approach to Cultural Tourism Studies

PART V: CONCLUSION

17 Methods in Cultural Tourism Research: the State of the Art

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