Research Report; Tourism Lifestyles and Social Capital
Table of Contents Abstract 3 Chapter 1: Literature review 4 Chapter 2: Observation Tourists Middelburg 5 2.1 Observation plan 5 2.2 The results 5 Chapter 3: Structured interviewing 6 3.1 Interviewee 6 3.2 List with interview question 6 3.3 Picture analysis 7 Chapter 4: In depth interview 10 4.1 Questions of the interview: 10 4.2 Codebook 10 4.3 Results 11 Chapter 5: Storytelling 11 5.1 Story 11 5.2 Analysis 13 Chapter 6: Content analysis 13 6.1 Codebook: 13 6.2 Results: 13 Chapter 7: Conclusion 14 Appendices 15 References: 15 Appendix 1; In dept interview 16 1.1 Interviewee: Tessa 16 1.2 Interviewee Jan. 19 Appendix 2; Travel Blogs 22 2.1 When in Rome … head for the beach 22 2.2 Edinburgh Hogmanay Torchlight procession 23 2.3 The one place you should never go: Olkhon Island, Russia 24
Abstract
I wrote this report for the course “Researching Techniques” in my second year at NHTV for the study track ITMC, International Travel Management and Consultancy. The research objective was to analyze and to develop an insight in tourism preferences and lifestyle and their relation with social capital. Thus in this report several research techniques will be used and the results will be given per chapter of each topic. And at the end there will be a conclusion about every topic.
Chapter 1: Literature review
Tourism Lifestyle and Social Capital
Chapter 2: Observation Tourists Middelburg 2.1 Observation plan
To be able to find out which lifestyles are attracted and which are not attracted to the city Middelburg I did an unstructured observation where the people were unaware of being observed. The observation was a natural observation, because it was during the week on a random day.
The observation concerning the different lifestyles of the people/tourists was done in three different environments. The first environment
References: - Maddie DeWitt (2012, June 7). Guardian Travel Network. Retrieved from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/blog/2012/jun/07/rome-beach-santa-marinella-restaurant (2013). - Emma Gray (2013, January 10), Emma’s travel tales. Retrieved from: http://emmastraveltales.co.uk/ (2013). - Na-o-mi (2012, September 18). Anywhere but home. Retrieved from: http://www.anywhere-but-home.com/the-place-you-should-never-go-olkhon-island-russia/ (2013) - Lectures from NHTV