Kids on board: methodological challenges, concerns and clarifications when including young children's voices in tourism research

Abstract This chapter discusses the need to respect and listen to the views of disabled children in general, and in relation to tourism specifically. It starts by defining the concept of voice and summarizes the broader debates and arguments regarding children's voice. The chapter then continues to cover how some children's voices, referred to as 'conventional voices', are privileged over others (such as disabled children). The subsequent section reflects on two strands of tourism research related to disability and children and highlights disabled children's invisibility and omission of their perspectives in tourism research. The chapter then provides a brief discussion of the challenges of researching with disabled children and outlines some ethical and practical considerations. Overall, this chapter serves as a springboard for further inquiry concerning disabled children's inclusion in tourism research.

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Disabled children as legitimate research participants: a topic omitted from tourism research?

Social tourism: global challenges and approaches ◽

10.1079/9781789241211.0009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 96-108

Author(s):

Fathimath Shiraani ◽

Neil Carr ◽

Gill Rutherford

Keyword(s):

Disabled Children ◽

Tourism Research ◽

Research Participants ◽

Subsequent Section ◽

Children’S Voices

Abstract This chapter discusses the need to respect and listen to the views of disabled children in general, and in relation to tourism specifically. It starts by defining the concept of voice and summarizes the broader debates and arguments regarding children's voice. The chapter then continues to cover how some children's voices, referred to as 'conventional voices', are privileged over others (such as disabled children). The subsequent section reflects on two strands of tourism research related to disability and children and highlights disabled children's invisibility and omission of their perspectives in tourism research. The chapter then provides a brief discussion of the challenges of researching with disabled children and outlines some ethical and practical considerations. Overall, this chapter serves as a springboard for further inquiry concerning disabled children's inclusion in tourism research.

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Hearing Children’s Voices: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

Children’s Voices from the Past ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-11896-9_1 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Nell Musgrove ◽

Carla Pascoe Leahy ◽

Kristine Moruzi

Keyword(s):

Methodological Challenges ◽

Children’S Voices

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Talk to me! Possibilities of constructing children’s voices in the domestic research context

Childhood ◽

10.1177/0907568216631026 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 68-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Elina Noppari ◽

Niina Uusitalo ◽

Reijo Kupiainen

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Home Environment ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Children's Media ◽

Research Context ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

Media Environments ◽

Power Trust ◽

Children’S Voices

This self-reflective article explores the possibilities of producing children’s ‘voice’ in the domestic research context. We look at producing voices as the process of giving an account of children’s meaning making and life. We examine the methodological challenges of producing voices in the home environment from three perspectives: power, trust and ethics. The findings presented in the article are based on an ongoing longitudinal study of Finnish children’s media environments, which began in 2007 and will continue through 2016.

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Predictive Accuracy of Sentiment Analytics for Tourism: A Metalearning Perspective on Chinese Travel News

Journal of Travel Research ◽

10.1177/0047287518772361 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 666-679 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Yu Fu ◽

Jin-Xing Hao ◽

Xiang (Robert) Li ◽

Cathy H.C. Hsu

Keyword(s):

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Predictive Accuracy ◽

Computational Method ◽

Strong Interactions ◽

Tourism Research ◽

Design Effects ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

Analysis Experiment ◽

Tourism Studies ◽

Design Factors

Sentiment analytics, as a computational method to extract emotion and detect polarity, has gained increasing attention in tourism research. However, issues regarding how to properly apply sentiment analytics are seldom addressed in the tourism literature. This study addresses such methodological challenges by employing the metalearning perspective to examine the design effects on predictive accuracy using a sentiment analysis experiment for Chinese travel news. Our results reveal strong interactions among key design factors of sentiment analytics on predictive accuracy; accordingly, this study formulates a metalearning framework to improve predictive accuracy for computational tourism research. Our study attempts to highlight and improve the methodological relevance and appropriateness of sentiment analytics for future tourism studies.

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