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Book SynopsisReprinted 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.
Table of ContentsPart 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, László Puczkó, Edit Bárd and Júlia Füzi 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-González and M. Ángeles Oviedo-García 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. González Fernández, María Carmen Rodríguez 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
