Here it is:
Research Question
What prospects and problems does Sabah face as a tourist destination?
The words ‘prospects’ and ‘problems’ allow the research to explore both the positive and negative aspects of tourism policy and development in Sabah and relate to the future of tourism in the state. Although there will be reference to Sabah’s tourism past and its current situation, the main emphasis of this research lies in the future of tourism at this particular destination. In order to answer the research question effectively, the following aims of this research are set out below.
Aims
1. To identify potential problems and prospects for Sabah's tourism development now and in the future.
2. To illustrate how the stakeholders plan to overcome these problems and achieve tourism success.
3. Offer personal recommendations for future tourism development in Sabah.
These aims require specific objectives in order to successfully conduct this research as accurately and as thoroughly as possible.
Objectives
1. To review academic literature that relates to tourism development, and to examine secondary documents that relate specifically to Malaysia's and Sabah's tourism development.
2. To examine stakeholders' responses to the current challenges facing Sabah's tourism industry.
3. To evaluate stakeholders' views on the potential opportunities facing Sabah's tourism industry.
4. To explore stakeholders' responses to their own role in developing a successful tourism industry.
5. Based on the literature and stakeholders' responses, to make recommendations for the future successful development of Sabah's tourism industry
Monday, 11 May 2009
Monday, 4 May 2009
The ball is rolling faster...
Having met with my disseration supervisor, Sam, last week my ideas for my dissertation are starting to take more shape.
For the moment my dissertation research question will be: What issues and opportunities does Sabah face as a tourist destination?
I am hoping to identify potential problems and opportunities for Sabah's tourism development and illustrate how various stakeholders plan to overcome such issues or achieve such opportunities. Hopefully with my research, I can also offer some recommendations for future development for tourism in Sabah. I have decided not to incorporate the local community in my research and instead research the stakeholders involved in Sabah's tourism development.
Good news - I may be able to go to Sabah this summer afterall! A family planned trip will also act as a dissertation research trip and I hopefully should be able to meet with various stakeholders whilst there.
The dissertation proposal due in just over a week will help to lay the foundations for my dissertation but if I am to visit Malaysia in July, I need to fully prepare my dissertation timetable and get most of my research done before my trip so that I am fully prepared for the interviews.
I am considering conducting phone itnerviews before I go to Malaysia and conducting one-to-one interviews whilst there to follow up any questions that may have come up between the phone interview and my time in Malaysia. I hope this will give me a more detailed insight into the stakeholder's opinions and may enlighten myself into some useful information.
For the moment my dissertation research question will be: What issues and opportunities does Sabah face as a tourist destination?
I am hoping to identify potential problems and opportunities for Sabah's tourism development and illustrate how various stakeholders plan to overcome such issues or achieve such opportunities. Hopefully with my research, I can also offer some recommendations for future development for tourism in Sabah. I have decided not to incorporate the local community in my research and instead research the stakeholders involved in Sabah's tourism development.
Good news - I may be able to go to Sabah this summer afterall! A family planned trip will also act as a dissertation research trip and I hopefully should be able to meet with various stakeholders whilst there.
The dissertation proposal due in just over a week will help to lay the foundations for my dissertation but if I am to visit Malaysia in July, I need to fully prepare my dissertation timetable and get most of my research done before my trip so that I am fully prepared for the interviews.
I am considering conducting phone itnerviews before I go to Malaysia and conducting one-to-one interviews whilst there to follow up any questions that may have come up between the phone interview and my time in Malaysia. I hope this will give me a more detailed insight into the stakeholder's opinions and may enlighten myself into some useful information.
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