Cultural Tourism Research Methods
Published on 28. June 2010
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-84593-518-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84593-518-4 (9781845935184)
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Persons
is Professor of Leisure Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He has led the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Project since its inception in 1991 and published widely in this field, including Cultural Tourism in Europe (1996), Cultural Attractions and European Tourism (2001), Tourism, Creativty and Development (2007), Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives and Eventful Cities: Cultural Management and Urban Regeneration (2010). Wil Munsters is Emeritus Professor of Tourism and Culture at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He has a strong academic background, including a PhD from the University of Nijmegen focusing on French literature and comparative aesthetics. For the last 25 years his major research interest has been in cultural tourism. He is the author of a monograph on cultural tourism and of studies about museums, heritage, hospitality, gastronomy, events and sport tourism, as well as co-editor of books on cultural tourism research methodology and on anthropology as a driver for tourism research. He has also contributed to numerous national and international conferences on tourism. As a member of ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research) he has been engaged in the international Cultural Tourism Research Project since 1994.
Editor
Breda University of Applied Sciences and Tilburg University, Netherlands
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Contributions
Co-creations, C. Angel Vidal 25, 1?, 08870 Sitges , (Barcelona), , , SPAIN
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
University of Technology, Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Bournemouth University, UK
University of Leon, Spain
Centre of Expertise for Cultural Tourism, Zuyd University, New Eyckholt 300, PO Box 550, 6400 AN Heerlen, , NETHERLANDS
Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
Content
Part 1: The Evolution of Cultural Tourism Research 1: Developments and Perspectives in Cultural Tourism Research, Greg Richards and Wil Munsters 2: The Traditional Quantitative Approach. Surveying Cultural Tourists: Lessons from the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Project, Greg Richards 3: A Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: Complementarities and Tradeoffs, Marjan Melkert and Katleen Vos 4: Blurring Boundaries in Cultural Tourism Research, Esther Binkhorst, Teun den Dekker and Marjan Melkert Part 2: Mixed Qualitative - Quantitative Approaches 5: The Cultural Destination Experience Audit Applied to the Tourist-Historic City, Wil Munsters 6: Combining Methods for the Study of Visitor Behaviour at the Hungarian Open Air Museum, Laszlo Puczko, Edit Bard and Julia Fuezi 7: Employing the Grand Tour Approach to Aid Understanding of Garden Visiting, Dorothy Fox, Jonathan Edwards and Keith Wilkes 8: Multi-Method Research on Ethnic Cultural Tourism in Australia, Jock Collins, Simon Darcy and Kirrily Jordan 9: Tracking the Urban Visitor: Methods for Examining Tourists' Spatial Behaviour and Visual Representations, Deborah Edwards, Tracey Dickson, Tony Griffin and Bruce Hayllar Part 3: Qualitative Approaches 10: An Application of Grounded Theory to Cultural Tourism Research: Resident Attitudes to Tourism Activity in Santiponce, Mario Castellanos-Verdugo, Francisco J. Caro-Gonzalez and M. Angeles Oviedo-Garcia 11: Tales from the Field: Video and its Potential for Creating Cultural Tourism Knowledge, Tijana Raki 12: Using Photo-Based Interviews to Reveal the Significance of Heritage Buildings to Cultural Tourism Experiences, Gregory Willson and Alison McIntosh 13: Measuring the Image of a Cultural Tourism Destination Through the Collage Technique, Ana M. Gonzalez Fernandez, Maria Carmen Rodriguez Santos and Miguel Cervantes Blanco Part 4: Interdisciplinary Approaches 14: Ethnographic Research on Cultural Tourism: An Anthropological View, Xerardo Pereiro 15: From Local to Global (and Back): Towards Glocal Ethnographies of Cultural Tourism, Noel B. Salazar 16: Assembling the Socio-material Destination: An Actor-Network Approach to Cultural Tourism Studies, Carina Ren 17: Methods in Cultural Tourism Research: The State of the Art, Wil Munsters and Greg Richards