Research methods for leisure, recreation and tourism / edited by Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, University of South Carolina, USA ; Muzaffer S. Uysal, University of Massachusetts, USA ; William E. Hammitt, Clemson University, USA ; Jerry J. Vaske, Colorado State University, USA.
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxforshire, UK :
CABI,
[2017]
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
| Series: | CABI tourism texts.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. An overview of leisure, recreation and tourism research :
- 1. Research methods for leisure, recreation and tourism / Ercan Sirakaya-Turk and Muzaffer Uysal
- Part II. ABCs of leisure, recreation and tourism research :
- 2. Leisure, recreation and tourism research design / William Hammitt, Begum Aybar-Damali and Francis A. McGuire
- 3. Finding and summarizing research literature / Jerry J. Vaske
- 4. Measurement of variables / Yuksel Ekinci
- 5. Proposal writing / Sheryl Fried Kline
- Part III. Research methods and data collection :
- 6. Survey research : sampling and questionnaire design / Ercan Sirakaya-Turk and Muzaffer Uysal
- 7. Qualitative research in leisure, recreation and tourism / Edward Ruddell
- 8. Grounded theory methodology in research / Harriet E.T. Dixon, L. Brent Igo and Fran A. McGuire
- 9. Evaluation research methods in leisure, recreation and tourism research / Gayle R. Jennings
- 10. Experimental research / Harmen Oppewal
- 11. Cross-cultural and visual research : issues and concerns / Frederic Dimanche
- Part IV. Analysing the data and testing hypotheses :
- 12. Summarizing data / Seyhmus Baloglu and Ahmet Usakli
- 13. Inferential analysis of data / Kathleen L. Andereck
- 14. Relationship analysis : t-tests, analysis of variance and cross tabulations / Jacinta M. Gau and Dogan Gursoy
- 15. Describing linear bivariate relationships : correlation analysis / Chenchen Huang and Lori Pennington-Gray
- 16. Factor analytical procedures / Muzaffer S. Uysal and Ercan Sirakaya Turk
- Part V. Research write ups: reporting the results :
- 17. Communicating research results / Patrick Tierney.