Research Note: A Content Analysis of Articles on Visiting Friends and Relatives Tourism, 1990–2010

Griffin, Tom

doi:10.1080/19368623.2012.708960

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“…This group was mostly not considered before the seminal work of Jackson (1990). Until today, the group remains under-investigated, despite its quantitative weight, 5 as several authors have stated (e.g., Backer, 2010;Janta et al, forthcoming), a perspective stimulated by Griffin's (2013) review. In fact, using Google Scholar, Griffin found only 61 academic papers focused on VFR tourism between 1990 and 2010.…”

Section: Impacts On International Tourist Arrivalsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Assessing the impacts of aviation liberalisation on tourism: Some methodological considerations derived from the Moroccan and Tunisian cases

Dobruszkes

Montémont

Ghedira

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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Section: Impacts On International Tourist Arrivalsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Assessing the impacts of aviation liberalisation on tourism: Some methodological considerations derived from the Moroccan and Tunisian cases

Dobruszkes

Montémont

Ghedira

2016

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…There is an increased understanding of the visiting friends and relatives (VFR) phenomenon and its importance to a destination in the literature (Backer 2012;Griffin 2012;Jackson 2003). Less is known about the flipside of the family component of VFR, the hosting experience (Capistrano 2013;Griffin 2013;Shani and Uriely 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Un)conditional hospitality: The host experience of the Polynesian community in Auckland

Schänzel

Brocx

Sadaraka

2014

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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un)conditional hospitality: The host experience of the Polynesian community in Auckland ABSTrAcTThere is an increased attention to the visiting friends and relatives phenomenon for destinations, yet the hosting experience is still neglected. One group of prolific hosts comprises the Polynesian families in Auckland, New Zealand, who are the focus of this study. In-depth interviews were conducted with eleven Pacifica people in Auckland to understand the experiences associated with hosting family from the Islands. Hosting relatives from the Pacific Islands is embedded in the cultural responsibilities of belonging to the Polynesian community and diaspora. The findings highlight the more unconditional nature of Polynesian hospitality with its emphasis on cultural connectedness, generativity and reciprocity as part of social capital formation. The contribution of providing hospitality through hosting deserves more attention for its integral role in social life. There are also obligatory aspects of reciprocity, inconveniences and responsibilities within Polynesian hospitality adding strain to an already vulnerable and marginalized population in New Zealand. More debate is needed about the sustainability of this notion of unconditional or obligated hospitality within modern society.

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“…Table 4 shows that a review of tourism articles in 12 key journals between 1994(Ballantyne, Packer, & Axelsen, 2009) and a review of sustainable tourism articles in JOST between 1993(Lu & Nepal, 2009, both showed that 6% of all research studies used this approach. Nunkoo, Smith, and Ramkissoon (2013) found that 13.5% of residents' perceptions articles were mixed methods, and Griffin (2013) found it was 9.5% of papers in research on visiting friends and relatives for 2004-2010, growing from 5.3% in 1997-2003 and none in 1990-1996. Yet there remains a general perception that mixed methods studies are rarely put into practice in tourism (McGehee et al, 2013).…”

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Mixed methods in sustainable tourism research: an analysis of prevalence, designs and application in JOST (2005–2014)

Molina‐Azorín

Font

2015

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

105

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This article analyses the use of mixed methods in papers published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism (JOST) over a ten year period, 2005 to 2014. The main purpose of this paper is to examine how and why mixed methods research is being used in the sustainable tourism field. First, a content analysis of the articles shows that the purposes are primarily expansion and development of the results, and less often triangulation or complementarity. Sequential designs are slightly more popular than simultaneous designs, with qualitative research preceding the quantitative element. In the majority of cases, both the quantitative and qualitative methods are equivalent in importance, yet where one is dominant this is usually the quantitative part. Second, we contextualise the content analysis by exemplifying the use of mixed methods with selected papers and interviews with their authors to reflect on the practices, reasons, strengths and weaknesses of using mixed methods. We argue that mixed methods provide sustainable tourism academics with more opportunities for pragmatic transformative research for societal change, and increases research reliability in relation to social desirability bias, stakeholder comparisons and interdisciplinarity.

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Research Note: A Content Analysis of Articles on Visiting Friends and Relatives Tourism, 1990–2010

Cited by 52 publications

References 51 publications

Assessing the impacts of aviation liberalisation on tourism: Some methodological considerations derived from the Moroccan and Tunisian cases

Assessing the impacts of aviation liberalisation on tourism: Some methodological considerations derived from the Moroccan and Tunisian cases

(Un)conditional hospitality: The host experience of the Polynesian community in Auckland

Mixed methods in sustainable tourism research: an analysis of prevalence, designs and application in JOST (2005–2014)

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