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Studying Tourism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digital Platforms and Methodological Problems of Tourist-Centricity

Studying Tourism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digital Platforms and Methodological Problems of Tourist-Centricity

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781668469194|ISBN10: 1668469197|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668469200|EISBN13: 9781668469217
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6919-4.ch010
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "Studying Tourism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digital Platforms and Methodological Problems of Tourist-Centricity." Cases on Traveler Preferences, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Impact in the Hospitality Industry, edited by Giuseppe Catenazzo, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 197-209. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6919-4.ch010

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Korstanje, M. E. (2023). Studying Tourism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digital Platforms and Methodological Problems of Tourist-Centricity. In G. Catenazzo (Ed.), Cases on Traveler Preferences, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Impact in the Hospitality Industry (pp. 197-209). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6919-4.ch010

Chicago

Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel. "Studying Tourism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digital Platforms and Methodological Problems of Tourist-Centricity." In Cases on Traveler Preferences, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Impact in the Hospitality Industry, edited by Giuseppe Catenazzo, 197-209. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6919-4.ch010

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Abstract

Over the recent decades, some scholars have alerted to the methodological limitations of tourist-centricity, which means the obsession with surveying tourists as the only source of vital information for applied research. Under some conditions, interviewees are of paramount importance to unpack some issues but to some extent, the obtained outcomes are not contradictory has been placed as the first point of entry in a hot debate among academicians. Interviews as well as other techniques have been widely used in the tourism field to understand travelers' behavior and preferences. The recent Covid-19 outbreak not only interrogated the methodological discrepancies of tourism research but also posed the following dilemma: how to study tourism in a world without tourists?

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