PARTicipative inquiry for tourist experience

•Offers a participative methodology for (co)researching ‘in the moment’ experiences.•Examines tourist experience before, during and after the holiday.•Advocates an emic triangulation of the three phases of tourist experience.•Reveals benefits, challenges and hidden insights that PARTicipative inquir...

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Published in:Annals of tourism research 2017-07, Vol.65, p.13-24
Main Authors: Ingram, Claire, Caruana, Robert, McCabe, Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data collection
Participation
Participative inquiry
Public opinion
Responsible tourism
Tourism
Tourist experience
Triangulation
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Summary:•Offers a participative methodology for (co)researching ‘in the moment’ experiences.•Examines tourist experience before, during and after the holiday.•Advocates an emic triangulation of the three phases of tourist experience.•Reveals benefits, challenges and hidden insights that PARTicipative inquiry elicits. Despite a wealth of research on the tourist experience, empirical evidence remains weak due to difficulties in data collection during people’s holidays. Tourist experience has thus primarily been analysed from a fixed point, such as prior motivations to travel or retrospective accounts. However, this obscures important information on tourists as they transition through the total experience. This paper presents participative inquiry as a novel methodology for the acquisition of data before, during and after the holiday; facilitating ‘prospective’, ‘active’ and ‘reflective’ triangulation (PART). We provide an empirical example of PARTicipative inquiry in practice, highlighting the benefits and challenges of this approach alongside the (otherwise) hidden insights it reveals into the responsible tourist experience.
ISSN:0160-7383
1873-7722
DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.008