The Role of Local Food in Maldives Tourism - Scholarly Commons ...
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1. data triangulation: uses a range <strong>of</strong> data sources<br />
2. <strong>in</strong>vestigator triangulation: uses a number <strong>of</strong> evaluators to review f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs<br />
3. theory triangulation: employs multiple perspectives to data <strong>in</strong>terpretation, and<br />
4. methodological triangulation: <strong>in</strong>volves multiple methods.<br />
In this study, two forms <strong>of</strong> triangulation are applied: data and methodological. In the<br />
former, data were drawn from various sources, and <strong>in</strong> the latter, both quantitative and<br />
qualitative methods were comb<strong>in</strong>ed (See Figure 3.1).<br />
Figure 3. 1 Methodological triangulation<br />
First the pictorial and textual content <strong>of</strong> tourist brochures and websites were analysed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> results from this analysis were then validated by a discourse analysis conducted on<br />
the same brochures and websites. In order to confirm and validate the emerg<strong>in</strong>g themes<br />
from these two analyses, two questionnaire surveys, one among tourism operators and<br />
the other among experts <strong>in</strong> the tourism <strong>in</strong>dustry, were conducted. <strong>The</strong> operator survey<br />
focused on quantitative details as well as qualitative <strong>in</strong>formation, while the expert<br />
survey was qualitative <strong>in</strong> nature, seek<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>-depth and op<strong>in</strong>ion-based answers.<br />
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