Farm tourism experiences in travel reviews: A cross-comparison of three alternative methods for data analysis

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 778-785

  Capriello, Antonella ^a,b   Mason, Peyton R ^c   Davis, Boyd ^d   Crotts, John C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b IRAT CNR   (Italy)

^c Linguistic Insights Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^e School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus based semantic analysis; Farm tourism; Manual content coding; Stance shift analysis; Travel review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875813556     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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