Tourism research and audio methods

Ethical issues in tourism and hospitality research

“…• The need for greater consideration of cultural differences in responses to research participation (Ryan and Gu, 2010). • The ethical challenges linked to particular methods such as ethnography (Hall, 2011b;Jennings, 2005), covert data collection (Chok, 2011;Miller et al, 2005), visual research methods (Rakic and Chambers, 2012), audio research methods (Jensen, 2016), the use of new technologies to track tourist movement (Spangenberg, 2014), and netnographic methods (Hall, 2011c;Mkono, 2012).…”

A comparative study on the effect of soundscape and landscape on tourism experience

“…Both soundscape and landscape have significant effect on the tourist's perception, and a congruence between the two can improve tourists' evaluations of a place (Lindquist, Lange, & Kang, ). Jensen () noted that sounds in tourism should be revalued and animated relevant researches “by utilising the localised, sensuous and embodied act of listening.” Even though there are already some studies on soundscape, most of them focus on acoustics (Axelsson, Nilsson, & Berglund, ), environment psychology (Pheasant, Fisher, Watts, Whitaker, & Horoshenkov, ), and nursing and health (Iyendo, ). The relation between soundscape and experience had not been discussed, though it is essential as sound is an important part of environment, especially in tourism scene (Liu et al, ; Waitt & Duffy, ).…”