Researching Hospitality and Tourism

By: Bob Brotherton

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eText | 17 August 2015 | Edition Number 2

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"Takes readers systematically through the entire research process from the formulation of the aim to the presentation of the dissertation... a key subject-specific resource in our fields."
- Dr Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University

"Currently the leading book of its kind... students and other novice researchers will find it accessible and user-friendly. Highly recommended."
- Professor Roy C. Wood, University of Macau

Bob Brotherton offers an uncluttered guide to the key concepts and essential research techniques in hospitality and tourism. By providing an authoritative introduction, students are taken through the issues and decisions that need to be considered to conceive, plan, conduct and write up a research project.

With updates to every chapter and an array of practical examples, this new edition takes students step-by-step through each decision and action stage of the research process, from identifying a topic and formulating the research question to carrying out research and analysing findings.

A companion website will provide a host of student resources including links to video and web resources, suggested further reading, free to download journal articles, and test questions for each chapter.

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Bob Brotherton’s writing reads easily, approach is hands-on and the book is truly tailor-made for hospitality and tourism students, addressing them as future managers working in the industry. He takes great care to wonderfully ‘humanize’ the research process for the undergraduate student who might at first be terrified by the scholarly jargon (or discourse). In conclusion, therefore, Researching Hospitality and Tourism is a very welcome handbook, and thanks to its friendly, personal and down-to-earth style (yet not compromising on the academic content!) I found it a very welcome addition to undergraduate tourism and hospitality reading lists.