Research methods for leisure, recreation and tourism / edited by Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, Muzaffer S. Uysal, William E. Hammitt and Jerry J. Vaske

Includes bibliographical references and index

Research methods for leisure, recreation and tourism / Ercan Sirakaya-Turk and Muzaffer Uysal -- Leisure, recreation and tourism research design / William Hammitt, Begum Aybar-Damali and Francis A. McGuire -- Finding and summarizing research literature / Jerry J. Vaske -- Measurement of variables / Yuksel Ekinci -- Proposal writing / Sheryl Fried Kline -- Survey research : sampling and questionnaire design / Ercan Sirakaya-Turk and Muzaffer Uysal -- Qualitative research in leisure, recreation and tourism / Edward Ruddell -- Grounded theory methodology in research / Harriet E.T. Dixon, L. Brent Igo and Fran A. McGuire -- Evaluation research methods in leisure, recreation and tourism research / Gayle R. Jennings -- Experimental research / Harmen Oppewal -- Cross-cultural and visual research : issues and concerns / Frederic Dimanche -- Summarizing data / Seyhmus Baloglu and Ahmet Usakli -- Inferential analysis of data / Kathleen L. Andereck -- Relationship analysis : t-tests, analysis of variance and cross tabulations / Jacinta M. Gau and Dogan Gursoy -- Describing linear bivariate relationships : correlation analysis / Chenchen Huang and Lori Pennington-Gray -- Factor analytical procedures / Muzaffer S. Uysal and Ercan Sirakaya Turk -- Communicating research results / Patrick Tierney