Tomorrow is a due date for draft research proposal so here I am, sitting in front of the laptop, wondering what to write ... As I have mentioned earlier on I am interested in motivations for travelling. My first thought was to analyse travel motivations of domestic and foreign tourists in Gdansk but recently my friend (also a postgraduate student) suggested to consider travel motivations for Polish tourists in London. And I believe this is a good idea. However due to limited literature sources in English I could mainly focus on questionnaires, interviews and observation and I fear that I will not be able to comply with agreed number of words for dissertation. The best tip for me is to do lots and lots of reading. Lately I have been searching for books regarding research in tourism and I must admit that the amount of available materials is tremendous. I would highly recommend books by A. J. Veal (research methods for leisure and tourism), M. Saunders (research methods for business students) or L. Altinay and A. Paraskevas (planning research in hospitality and tourism). It is worth to look at the internet as it is full of guidelines on preparing a research proposal:
http://researchproposalguide.com/
http://dissertation-service.co.uk/blog/dissertations/research-proposal
All I need is more time as it is hard to reconcile studying and reading with full - time work.
Because at this moment I just feel like standing on the beginning of a track which is 10.000 km long and I cannot even see the end of it ...http://researchproposalguide.com/
http://dissertation-service.co.uk/blog/dissertations/research-proposal
All I need is more time as it is hard to reconcile studying and reading with full - time work.
What to do ???
Hi Aga,
ReplyDeleteYak sie masz?Dobzie?i hope i spelled that right:), it is a very good idea, but i think since you are intersted to write about motivation of tourists so may be you could focous more about Marketing!how could you motivate the consumers by the different marketing methods in order to visit a destination...Good Luck and see you tomorrow:)
Hey Hossam. You almost got it right ;) actually it is a good idea to focus on marketing - thanks for that. I could not attend the previous lecture due to sickness. But I will be there on following Wednesday. Take care and see you soon.
ReplyDeleteHi Aga
ReplyDeleteI like your topic and somehow it is similar to mine. Except that my research will not be based on the motives for a choice of destination, I want to rather find out how to influence people to travel, and try to prove if existing theories related to influence can be applied in the tourism environment.
Good luck with yours!