Advanced Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism
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Rapid growth in the tourism and hospitality industry highlights the importance of applied and pure research to address the theoretical and practical problems and gaps facing the industry daily, from a multitude of perspectives – the economic, social, cultural, environmental, political, and technological. Advanced Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism reviews traditional research methods, revising them to suit the contemporary problems and research agendas.
Developing recent research strategies under the umbrella of quantitative and qualitative research methods – such as the mixed-methods designs, analysing archival materials, online databases, text mining, and scientific qualitative analysis of social media historical data– can offer promising solutions.
In the era of technology and big data, advanced and innovative research methods and conducting effective research to solve emerging problems in tourism and hospitality is critical, making Advanced Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism a necessity for academics and practitioners.
Chapter 1. Introduction; S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Shiva Jahani, and Fevzi Okumus
- Chapter 2. A Critical View on Mixed-Method Approaches to Tourism and Hospitality Research; Dr Jaylan Azer, Prof Babak Taheri, and Dr Martin Gannon
- Chapter 3. An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Design: A Research Design for Small Tourism Enterprises in Ghana; Elizabeth Agyeiwaah
- Chapter 4. Systematic Review of Scale Development Practices in the Field of Tourism and Hospitality; Ali Bavik, Chen-Feng Kuo, and John Ap
- Chapter 5. Using Neuromarketing Tools in Hospitality and Tourism Research; Hakan Boz and Erdogan Koc
- Chapter 6. Using Archival Material in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Studies: Beauty and the Beast; Parisa Saadat Abadi Nasab, Neil Carr, and Trudie Walters
- Chapter 7. Tourism Online Reviews: Databases and Samples; Juan Pedro Mellinas and Eva Martin-Fuentes
- Chapter 8. Application of Text Mining Approaches in Hospitality and Tourism; Gozde Ozturk and Abdullah Tanrisevdi
- Chapter 9. Qualitative analysis of Social Media Historical Data: A case study of Twitter and Tourism Boycotts; Ismail Shaheer, Neil Carr, and Andrea Insch
- Chapter 10. Photo-Elicitation using Q-Method to Extract Group Sense of Place for a Marine Park in Borneo; Paulin Wong Poh Lin and Balvinder Kaur Kler
- Chapter 11. Including the ‘voices’ of Animals in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Research; Giovanna Bertella
- Chapter 12. Conclusion; Shiva Jahani, Fevzi Okumus, and S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh
Dr. Fevzi Okumus is the CFHLA Preeminent Chair Professor within the Hospitality Services Department at the University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM) and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights (JHTI).
Dr. S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh is an Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism (CRiT), at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, Taylor's University, Malaysia.
Dr. Shiva Jahani is a statistician at the University of Central Florida. She specializes in research methodology and advanced data analytics. She is a Graduate Faculty Scholar at University of Central Florida, including at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management. She is the Associate Methodology Editor for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights.