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Adopted Research Designs by Tourism and Hospitality Postgraduates in The Light ‎of Research Onion

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Background: Research design is the explicit techniques used to identify, choice, process, and analyze data about a research topic. All researchers must adopt and justify a specific research design and methodology.   
Aim: This study aims to explore the adopted methodologies by tourism and hospitality postgraduates, in order to shed the light on the importance of teaching a comprehensive research methods modules for postgraduates.
Methodology: A qualitative research design based on an interpretivist philosophical worldview was adopted to analyze the methodological contents of tourism and hotel-related theses (N=188) undertaken at Fayoum University.         
Findings: While most theses (94.2%) did not consider/refer explicitly or implicitly to the adopted philosophy, only 5.8% (n=11) of them mentioned their philosophy, including Positivism and pragmatism. In addition, 100% of the theses adopted the cross-sectional as a time horizon while data collection.   
Implications: The findings of this study may be valuable for teaching comprehensive and effective modules on research methods for tourism and hospitality postgraduates.  
Limitations: This study was limited to theses conducted at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University.  The future research may extend the sampling process to include a wider range of the postgraduates' theses.  

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10.21608/ijthm.2021.206774

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postgraduates, Theses, methodologies, Approach, ‎philosophies, tourism, and hospitality, Fayoum. ‎

Authors

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Ayman

Last Name

Abdelhakim

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Safi

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Faculty Of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University, Egypt ‎

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asf01@fayoum.edu.eg

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Raghda

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Badr ‎

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Mohamed

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Faculty Of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University, Egypt ‎

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4

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2

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29115

Issue Date

2021-12-01

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2021-07-15

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2021-12-01

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98

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124

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2535-2318

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2682-3632

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IJTHM_Volume 4_Issue 2_Pages 98-124.pdf

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International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management

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Adopted Research Designs by Tourism and Hospitality Postgraduates in The Light ‎of Research Onion

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22 Jan 2023