Research Design in Socially Deviant Tourist Behavior Studies: a Mixed-Method Approach

• Autores: Jun Wen, Fang Meng
• Localización: Tourism analysis, ISSN 1083-5423, Vol. 26, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 83-88
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.