Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago

CHAPTER 4 METHODOLOGY
perspective of the participants intact, providing a context for their behaviour. (Stern
2004)
A stage of qualitative research is often a precursor for quantitative analysis, since
before linguistic phenomena can be classified and counted; the categories for
classification must first be identified.
Another problem for the quantitative research is that it may not count the variables
that can appear that change the human behaviour, although the information gather is
much richer than the one we get when using the qualitative research. When using
qualitative research, it may have richness and precision, but quantitative research
appears as statistically reliable and with general results. (Stern 2004).
Some researchers believe that qualitative and quantitative methodologies cannot be
combined because the assumptions underlying each tradition are really different.
Other researchers think they can be used in combination only by alternating both
methods.
Qualitative research is appropriate to answer certain kinds of questions in certain
conditions and quantitative is when you have to cover a wide range of people.
Other researchers then think that both qualitative and quantitative methods can be
used simultaneously to answer a research question.
4.3 Limitations
The limitations of this research can be found both, in primary and secondary data
research. To start with, limitations on secondary data were found because of the lack
on references concerning religious tourism. Collins-Kreiner (2006) explains how
only one book has been published specifically looking at tourism and religion
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