Research design in socially deviant tourist behavior studies: A mixed-method approach

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Tourism Analysis

Volume

26

Issue

1

First Page

83

Last Page

88

Publisher

Cognizant Communication Corporation

School

School of Business and Law

RAS ID

30490

Comments

Wen, J., & Meng, F. (2021). Research design in socially deviant tourist behavior studies: A mixed-method approach. Tourism Analysis, 26(1), 83-88. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354220X15758302602538

Abstract

© 2021 Cognizant, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Most extant research on socially deviant tourist behavior is qualitative in nature and lacks empirical investigation due to the topic's sensitivity and data collection difficulties. This research note addresses the methodological and data collection challenges in deviant tourist behavior studies and provides a comprehensive mixed-method research design by demonstrating an empirical study of drug tourism among Chinese visitors in Amsterdam. A sequential explanatory design is presented, which includes ethnography and two-staged qualitative interview data gathering and analysis, followed by a cross-sectional quantitative survey study. This research note provides methodological contributions to solve the data collection problems in special interest tourism and other sensitive research topics in social science.

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10.3727/108354220X15758302602538

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