Hypothesis I want to examine if tourists use social media as their travel guide for their next travel destination. I hypothesize that social media plays an important value in not only our travel destination but site seeing as well over a three month period. Flow Chart In my experiment, there will be 12 tourists. I … Continue reading Does Social Media Help Tourists?
SEARCH TOPIC My search topic is the impact that artificial intelligence has on the travel industry/travel agencies. I predict that by the end of my searches I will have reached saturation after my three searches. DATABASES I USED * Database is Communications and Mass Media Collection (Gale) – searched terms “social media travel” Other limitations … Continue reading Travel Agencies Using AI – Final Stage
I will be doing research to help me better understand the use of artificial intelligence (informatics) in the travel industry. I have found different ways to find the necessary research I need in order to carry out my search and so far it has been really exciting. MY SEARCH TOPIC: The use of artificial intelligence … Continue reading All Around the World
The database I used for both Hospitality And Tourism Collection (Gale). Search #1 My first search for this database was “informatics and travel.” 40 magazine results, 29 academic journals, 3 books and 368 news showed up for the result. The boolean term I used was AND. Though all the results that showed up seemed interesting … Continue reading Changes to Research
Part 4: Sampling Topic 30: Sampling and Demographics Consider a survey on campus services for freshmen. Name three demographic variables that might be especially relevant for this study. Three demographic variables that might be especially relevant for this study are age, income, and gender. The age may be relevant because it can show whether the … Continue reading Part 4 Topic 30 DQ 1
Topic review question: What does stratification mean in random sampling? Stratification or stratified random sampling is a method that is used where the population of a group starts to divide into smaller groups. These sub- groups are known as strata. When you stratify a population, you begin to create different layers. This has been … Continue reading Topic 27, TQ: Stratification in Random Sampling
Discussion Question: Suppose a friend was planning to use simple random sampling in a research project from which he or she wants to generalize to all students on a campus. Would you recommend drawing names from a hat or using a table of random numbers? Why? My Answer: I believe that the friend would want to use … Continue reading Topic 26 DQ 1 Simple Random & Systematic Sampling
The flowing discussion preview describes my opinions from my readings. When preparing a critical review the writer needs to be a proclaimed expert writer and not a novice. Critical reviews stated in topic 16 DQ 1 is an unproven statement based on based on the principles that is required of a critical review. To prepare … Continue reading “Topic 16, DQ 1: Preparing to write a critical review.”
Question You have probably encountered conflicting research reported in the mass media. For example, one study might indicate that drinking red win improves health while another study indicates that it does not. Speculate on the reasons why various researcher might obtain different results when studying the same problem. I think a lot of reasons this … Continue reading Topic 2 Empirical Research DQ 2
Weekly Overview: The Forsyth workshop I mentioned about developing a research topic is this Wednesday. I hope you can attend. The link is in your activities checklist. In class, you’ll have a quiz on Parts 1 through 3 of the current text and a new chapter to read. Also, we’ll start using the blog for … Continue reading Week 3: Review, Reading, & Quiz!