Sensitivity to cultural difference in tourism research: contingency in research design

✍ Scribed by Sigrid Schuler; Lucinda Aberdeen; Pam Dyer

• Book ID: 104314975
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 181 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0261-5177
• DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5177(98)00093-4

✦ Synopsis

This paper evaluates the process of devising a research design to investigate tourism and an Australian indigenous group, the Djabugay. It demonstrates the mutual benefits that can arise in a context of cultural difference when research is predicated on an ethic of responsibility to those who are being researched. In particular, it argues that sensitivity and responsiveness to contingency are vital ingredients in the research design in order to accommodate the concerns of the researched.