Journal
ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 13-24Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.008
Keywords
Tourist experience; Participative inquiry; Triangulation; Responsible tourism
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- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [1368850]
- Economic and Social Research Council [1368850] Funding Source: researchfish
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Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people's holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations to travel or retrospective accounts. However, this obscures important information on tourists as they transition through the total experience. This paper presents participative inquiry as a novel methodology for the acquisition of data before, during and after the holiday; facilitating 'prospective', 'active' and 'reflective' triangulation (PART). We provide an empirical example of PARTicipative inquiry in practice, highlighting the benefits and challenges of this approach alongside the (otherwise) hidden insights it reveals into the responsible tourist experience. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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