Tourism Management Doctoral Program (Ph.D., 3,5 - 5 Years)

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of research process and issues pertaining to research design. This course also aims to provide students with an understanding of statistical techniques (e.g., exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, regression analysis, and path analysis) used for testing the psychometric properties of measures and assessing relationships in the conceptual or research models.

This course is designed to provide students with a knowledge of both theory and practice. The major philosophical and methodological debates in the qualitative approach will be discussed in detail. Qualitative strategies such as ethnography, case studies, grounded theory, action research, and feminist research will be examined. Qualitative data analysis techniques such as archival research, participant observation, qualitative content analysis interviews and focus group methods will be also discussed. Qualitative data analysis and ethical concerns will be also examined.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of a wide range of contemporary topics via an extensive reading of peer-reviewed articles in tourism and hospitality research. Topics may emerge from destination management and marketing, policy planning, competitiveness, services management and marketing, financial management, human resource management, organizational behavior, and strategic management. This course also helps students find out specific research topics for their theses.

The aim of the seminar course is to develop students’ research capacity and guide them to prepare a draft research proposal. The students will gain presentation and communication skills, and competencies of working autonomously and with group, and learning effective writing of a research proposal.