Basic of Tourism Research

The book is compilation of basic concepts of research in humanity and social sciences streams, especially tourism. The compilation elaborates the concept of tourism research, its process and types. It comprehensively describes about challenges and status of research in tourism and hospitality sector. How planning is the key in any sort of research is also discussed in detail along with planning process, formulation of research problem, hypothesis, hypothesis testing, sampling, sampling errors and reporting. The book brings forward significance of research in tourism sector and major thrust areas, those can be targeted.