Reprinted in paperback. 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, collages, 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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Greg Richards, Esther Munsters

Wil Munsters; Greg Richards

Cambridge, Mass.

CABI Publishing

CAB International (trading as 'CABI'), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K., 2010

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, England, 2010

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1, 2010

2012

до 2011-08

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Tables, Boxes, Figures and Appendices......Page 12
1 Developments and Perspectives in Cultural Tourism Research......Page 16
2 The Traditional Quantitative Approach. Surveying Cultural Tourists: Lessons from the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Project......Page 28
3 A Comparison of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: Complementarities and Trade-offs......Page 48
4 Blurring Boundaries in Cultural Tourism Research......Page 56
5 The Cultural Destination Experience Audit Applied to the Tourist-historic City......Page 67
6 Methodological Triangulation: the Study of Visitor Behaviour at the Hungarian Open Air Museum......Page 76
7 Employing the Grand Tour Approach to Aid Understanding of Garden Visiting......Page 90
8 Multi-method Research on Ethnic Cultural Tourism in Australia......Page 102
9 Tracking the Urban Visitor: Methods for Examining Tourists’ Spatial Behaviour and Visual Representations......Page 119
10 An Application of Grounded Theory to Cultural Tourism Research: Resident Attitudes to Tourism Activity in Santiponce......Page 130
11 Tales from the Field: Video and its Potential for Creating Cultural Tourism Knowledge......Page 144
12 Using Photo-based Interviews to Reveal the Significance of Heritage Buildings to Cultural Tourism Experiences......Page 156
13 Measuring the Image of a Cultural Tourism Destination through the Collage Technique......Page 171
14 Ethnographic Research on Cultural Tourism: an Anthropological View......Page 188
15 From Local to Global (and Back): Towards Glocal Ethnographies of Cultural Tourism......Page 203
16 Assembling the Socio-material Destination: an Actor–Network Approach to Cultural Tourism Studies......Page 214
17 Methods in Cultural Tourism Research: the State of the Art......Page 224
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D......Page 232
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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. It is suitable for students and researchers in tourism and leisure. -- [Source inconnue]

2011-08-31