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• Cover-Page
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Preface
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Where Qualitative Methods Meet Quantitative Methods
• Ethics in Qualitative Research
• Structure of this Text
• 1 Ontology, Epistemology: Paradigms and Parameters for Qualitative Approaches to Tourism Research
• The Nature of Qualitative Research
• Qualitative vs Quantitative Research
• The Lexicons of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
• What Do We Mean ‘Paradigm’?
• Some Perspectives on the Components of a Qualitative Research Paradigm
• A Note on ‘Mixed Methods’
• The Relevance for Tourism Research
• Conclusion
• 2 A Grounded Theory Approach to Tourism
• Overview of Grounded Theory and Background to its Common Usage
• Research Contexts
• Grounded Theory in Practice
• Some Final Thoughts
• 3 Ethnographic Approaches to Tourism Research
• What is Ethnography?
• Ethnographic Fieldwork
• Ethnographic Writing: Process and Product
• The Complexities of Doing Ethnography: Considering Issues of Subjectivity and Objectivity
• Ethnography in Tourism Studies
• Types of Ethnographic Research
• Conclusion
• 4 Phenomenology in Leisure and Tourism Research
• Phenomenology: The Study of Lived Experiences
• Research Processes and Presentation
• Phenomenology as a Method for Studying Tourism and Leisure Experiences
• Case Study: ‘What it is Like to be a Surfer Girl’: Interpretive Phenomenology for Investigating Women’s Surfing Experiences
• Final Thoughts
• 5 Action Research and Tourism Studies
• Overview of Action Research and Background to its Common Usage
• Engaging in Action Research
• Cyclic Processes of Action Research
• Research Contexts
• Determining Quality in Action Research
• Conclusion
• 6 Participant Observation in Cross-Cultural Tourism Research
• Observation, Participant-Observation and Naturalistic Inquiry
• Naturalistic Inquiry and Participant-Observation
• Membership and Cross-Cultural Tourism Research: Inconsistencies and Conflicts
• A New Model of Research Partnering for Cross-Cultural Tourism Research
• Case Study: Application of the Model to an Indigenous Tourism Research Context
• Conclusion
• 7 Aligning Western and Indigenous Ways of Doing Tourism Research: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach
• Indigenous Epistemologies, Ontologies and Axiologies: The Natures of Knowing, Being and Values
• Partnering, Participation and Benefit Sharing
• Ownership of Knowledge and Informed Consent
• Indigenous Ways of Doing Research
• Synthesising a Framework for Indigenous Research
• Aligning Indigenous and Western Research
• ‘Am I Doing it Right?’: A Constructivist–Interpretive Paradigm Informed by Indigenous Research Perspectives
• Conclusion
• 8 Qualitative Tourism Research: Focus Groups
• What Are Focus Groups?
• Purpose of Focus Groups
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Focus Groups for Qualitative Data Collection
• Role of the Facilitator
• Focus Group Participants
• Group Composition
• Conducting a Focus Group
• Why Use Focus Groups in Tourism?
• Case Study: Mindful Memories: Using Focus Groups to Gather Data in Transformative Heritage Tourism Experiences
• Conclusion
• 9 The Interview in Tourism Research
• Talking to People
• The Value of Talking to People in Tourism Research
• Structured, semi-structured and unstructured (in-depth) interviews
• Tourism-Related People
• Interviews and Stakeholder Research
• Interviews and Technology
• Case Study: Interviewing in Action: Understanding a Controversial Tourist Development
• Tacking Back and Forth: The Interview Process
• Concluding Remarks on the Limits of the Interview Method
• 10 A Mixed Methods Approach in Tourism Research
• Philosophies of Mixed Methods Research
• Classifying Mixed Methods Research
• A Review of Mixed Methods Tourism Research
• Case Study: A Mixed Methods Approach in Tourism Research
• A Concurrent Nested Mixed Methods Design
• Research Design
• Conclusion
• 11 Image Use in Tourism Research Methodology
• Theories on Destination and Activity Choice in Tourism
• The Use of Visual Methods in Tourism Research
• The Development of a Photo-based Ranking-Sorting Procedure
• Mixing Methods
• Case Study: An Application of the Photo-based Ranking-Sorting Procedure in a Tourism Project
• Results
• Discussion and Conclusion
• 12 Conclusion
• Index