Research Methods for Tourism Students

Ramesh Durbarry is currently the Director General of the Civil Service College, Mauritius. He was appointed Professor in Tourism and Deputy Director at the Amity Institute of Higher Education, Mauritius. He has worked at the University of Bedfordshire as Head of Department, Marketing, Tourism & Hospitality. He was the CEO of the UOM Trust Business School in Mauritius and has also worked at the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow, Lecturer in Research Methods of Tourism and Travel and then as Associate Professor in Tourism Management/Marketing. After successfully developing the School of Public Sector Policy and Management at the University of Technology, Mauritius, he was instrumental in the creation of the School of Sustainable Development and Tourism. His research focuses on tourism and travel, tourism taxation, price sensitivity of tourism and the impact of the tourism sector on the various economies, with a keen interest on climate change and sustainable tourism. He has published various articles in leading international journals and has contributed chapters in international books. He has worked on various projects for organisations such as WTO, UNWTO, EU, UNCTAD, VisitScotland and EMDA, among others, and on tourism destinations such as Malta and Cyprus.

Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Philosophical Disputes in Research ; Chapter 3 The Research Process ; Chapter 4 Developing a Research Proposal ; Chapter 5 Reviewing the Literature ; Chapter 6 Research Ethics ; Chapter 7 Developing a Conceptual Framework ; Chapter 8 Qualitative Research: An Application to Tourism ; Chapter 9 Quantitative Research ; Chapter 10 Mixed Methods and Triangulation ; Chapter 11 The Internet as a Research Tool and E-Method: Netnography ; Chapter 12 Online Surveys ; Chapter 13 Sampling ; Chapter 14 Analysing Qualitative Data ; Chapter 15 Grounded Theory and Data Analysis ; Chapter 16 Analysing Qualitative Data Using NVivo ; Chapter 17 Analysing Quantitative Data ; Chapter 18 Analysing Quantitative Data Using SPSS ; Chapter 19 Writing the Research Report ; Chapter 20 Research Presentation ;