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• Author/Creator:Mason, Peter.
  
• Title:Researching Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality for Dissertations and Theses.
  
• ISBN:9781915097026
  9781915097026
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Publication:Oxford : Goodfellow Publishers, Limited, 2022.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2022.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (295 pages)
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary:Provides a step-by-step, user friendly guide to successfully researching and compiling your dissertation or thesis. Now in its second edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised and updated, and includes two new chapters looking at conducting mixed methods research, as well as analysing mixed methods research.
  
• Variant and related titles:ProQuest ebook central.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Mason, Peter Researching Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality for Dissertations and Theses Oxford : Goodfellow Publishers, Limited,c2022
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- 1 An Introduction to Research and Your Study -- 2 The Literature Review -- 3 Research Philosophy and Research Design -- 4 Quantitative Research Techniques and Conduct -- 5 Qualitative Research Techniques and Conduct -- 6 Mixed Methods Research -- 7 Presentation of Results -- 8 Quantitative Data Analysis -- 9 Qualitative Data Analysis -- 10 Analysing Mixed Methods Research -- 11 Conclusions -- Case Study 1.1: The role of the supervisor -- Case Study1.2: How I write -- Case Study 2.1: What to include and what to leave out in terms of the literature review. -- Case Study 2.2: Should I research my place of work? -- Case Study 2.3: Aims and objectives -- Case Study 2.4: The style of the literature review -- Case Study 3.1: Differences between positivism and constructivism -- Case Study 4.1: Student designed questionnaire: first draft -- Case Study 4.2: A representative sample? -- Case Study 5.1: Observation at Stonehenge -- Case Study 5.2: Student's first draft of interview schedule with supervisor comments (comments in italics) -- Case Study 5.3: Two focus groups used in connection with a music festival -- Case Study 5.4: Mountain biking focus groups, New Zealand -- Case Study 6.1: An example of mixed methods research in a Masters' dissertation. -- Case Study 6.2: Sequential mixed methods research -- Case Study 8.1: An example of the Chi-square test -- Case Study 8.2: An example of factor analysis and ANOVA -- Case Study 9.1: Children's understanding of the concept of a tourist -- Case Study 9.2: Observation at Wellington Zoo -- Case Study 9.3: Content analysis of a cruise ship brochure -- Case Study 9. 4: Data analysis for the qualitative phase of the Tourism Destination Quality (TDQ) study -- Case Study 9.5: Dimensions with their attributes in the TDQ study: two examples 'Hospitable' and 'Safe'.
  Case Study 10.1: Tourism Destination Quality: Analysis of sequential exploratory mixed methods research -- Case Study 10.2: Mountain biking in New Zealand: An example of sequential explanatory mixed methods research.
  
• Subjects:Dissertations, Academic.