As the field of tourism and hospitality experiences maturity and scientific sophistication, researchers need to fully understand the breadth and depth of existing scales that help explain, understand, monitor, and predict not only behavior but also consequences of such behavior as a function of demand and supply interactions in the field. By introducing the importance of measurement and scales and providing groupings of existing scales, The Handbook of Scales in Tourism and Hospitality Research serves as the state-of-the-art reference book in the field of tourism, hospitality and...

Describing the fundamental elements of research methods for leisure, recreation and tourism, this new edition of a popular textbook is updated throughout. It covers the measurement of variables, sampling, questionnaire design and evaluation methods, and also a wider discussion of writing proposals, communicating research findings, cross-cultural research, and the use of new technologies in conducting research.

This new edition includes:
* New and expanded material on visual research methods, non-parametric tests and sampling to encompass growing areas of research...