PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience
Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people’s holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations to travel or retrospective accounts. However, thi...
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| author | Ingram, Claire Caruana, Robert McCabe, Scott |
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| description | Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people’s holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations to travel or retrospective accounts. However, this obscures important information on tourists as they transition through the total experience. This paper presents participative inquiry as a novel methodology for the acquisition of data before, during and after the holiday; facilitating ‘prospective’, ‘active’ and ‘reflective’ triangulation (PART). We provide an empirical example of PARTicipative inquiry in practice, highlighting the benefits and challenges of this approach alongside the (otherwise) hidden insights it reveals into the responsible tourist experience. |
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| spelling | nottingham-423092020-05-04T18:44:45Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42309/ PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience Ingram, Claire Caruana, Robert McCabe, Scott Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people’s holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations to travel or retrospective accounts. However, this obscures important information on tourists as they transition through the total experience. This paper presents participative inquiry as a novel methodology for the acquisition of data before, during and after the holiday; facilitating ‘prospective’, ‘active’ and ‘reflective’ triangulation (PART). We provide an empirical example of PARTicipative inquiry in practice, highlighting the benefits and challenges of this approach alongside the (otherwise) hidden insights it reveals into the responsible tourist experience. Elsevier 2017-05-06 Article PeerReviewed Ingram, Claire, Caruana, Robert and McCabe, Scott (2017) PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience. Annals of Tourism Research, 65 . pp. 13-24. ISSN 0160-7383 Tourist experience participative inquiry triangulation responsible tourism http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738317300555 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.008 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.008 |
| spellingShingle | Tourist experience participative inquiry triangulation responsible tourism Ingram, Claire Caruana, Robert McCabe, Scott PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience |
| title | PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience |
| title_full | PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience |
| title_fullStr | PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience |
| title_short | PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience |
| title_sort | participative inquiry for tourist experience |
| topic | Tourist experience participative inquiry triangulation responsible tourism |
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