Examination Of The Tourism Industry In Nepal After The Earthquake

Background

Write a Research proposal on the study to examine the degree of tourism industry in Nepal.

The main research will be prepared to identify the impact of the Nepal earthquake on its tourism industry. The report will identify the different elements and factors that are responsible for the creation of the present situation and thus tries to identify the ways of sustainable tourism.

The reason for the study is to inspect the impact of the earthquake of Nepal in 2015 over the tourism industry. The report will try to gather an understanding of the effective disaster management off Nepal after the disaster (Lew and Cheer 2017). The study will highlight on the restoration of the main areas of tourist attractions that had been affected by the earthquake.

Research design can be basically divided into two types based on the core function they function. One is the pure research and the other one is the applied form of research. The pure form of research pure research is carried out thinking of a practical outcome but the applied form is carried out to solve a particular problem. The following research will be using the applied form of research to conduct the analysis (Lewis 2015). The analysis of the research using the applied form is the most suitable for the research because it will involve the identification of the scientific reasons on the presence state of tourism industry in Nepal and undertake a proper and effective analysis to get an idea of the sudden change of behavior from the part of the tourists.  

There are two different forms of data collection methods namely the primary form of data collection and the secondary form of data collection methods. Both the different forms of data collection methods have a different processes and methods to collect the data. The primary form of data is collected in the form of interviews and surveys which involves the selection of a certain group of participants from a large group and then collecting the responses of the participants and analyzing t6hem to deduce the results (Orkin 2014). The secondary data collection methods on the other hand is the collection of data from the existing sources which were used for the earlier researches on the same kind of topics or the topics that are closely related to the research topic. The following kinds of the information can also be collected from the different company reports, journals, business magazines, other commercial weekly or daily magazines or publishing and many other kinds of similar sources. Both of the different sources of information have their own set of benefits. The primary sources of information collect the information or the responses on a real time basis which makes them much more accurate in nature. But on the other hand the time consuming nature and the huge cost of carrying out the research using primary methods will be a problem. The secondary research will be based on the earlier researchers that will consist of information from earlier sources. However the accuracy of the research method in the primary research will make it an ideal selection for the following research.

Research Design

The systematic methods used in the collection of the information from a selected group of individuals can be collectively called as a survey. The responses are used for the construction of the different types of qualitative descriptors of the different attributes of the larger population for which the entities acts as the members (Boyack Smith and Klavans 2018). The survey has a number of aims or objectives to attain. This includes the collection of the idea about the personal attributes, behavior, options and the different forms of beliefs that has to be observed directly. The more accurate the responses of the participants are, the more accurate are the results of the survey.

For the conduction of this particular topic the formulator of the research will be using either the open or the close ended questions to complete the particular research process. The research will identify and examine the degree of impact of different factors on the tourism industry of Nepal. The presentation of online surveys will help the organization to properly use the different open ended and close ended questions. It is very much important to have a clear idea of both the question types (Lewis 2015). The qualtrics is a subscription software for the collection and analyzing of the data. The data is analyzed for conducting market research and other tests.

The open ended questions are exploratory in nature and provide the participants of the research survey with the freedom of answering the questions. The questions generally do not have any options, but rather it answers each and every question in a detailed way. The questions generally contains rich amount of qualitative data that provides the opportunity to formulate data from various kinds of valuable sources of data. the open ended questions are useful for the research in a number of different ways like;

1. Expert interviews
2. Respondent outputs
3. Studies of a small group of population

The close ended questions needs to have a large number of explicit options for the respondents to answer (Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault 2015). There are different types of such questions including multiple choice questions, semantic differential, check boxes, ranking and many more as such. The participants do not have the freedom to answer the questions and have to select their answers from the options provided to them.

The formulator of the research will be using the open ended questions to conduct and complete the full research. The use of the open ended questions for this particular research related to the tourism industry in Nepal is quite justified as open ended questions provides the much needed options and space to the researcher to analyze the responses of the participants using a number of different theories and concepts (Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault 2015). Apart from this the time consumed by the open ended questions helps the research to gain valuable inputs from the respondents, which might not have been possible given the short time limit of the conduction of the close ended questions.

Data Collection Methods

It is necessary for the research to follow a particular type of sample designing and also select a particular style of sample for the conduction of the main research. The most widely used sampling techniques are the probability and the non probability sampling techniques (Creswell and Creswell 2017). The researcher will be using the probability sampling technique to analyze the strength of the participants. The selection of the following survey will be completed on the basis of the experience of the tourists visiting Nepal, the region from where they comes, demography and their ideas about natural disasters. The selection and the consideration of these elements will help the research to be much more precise and specific in nature. The selected group of people will thus have a fair chance of selection to be the participants of the following research.

The following research will identify the degree of tourism industry in Nepal after the huge earthquake will be using the systematic method of sampling. The use of the systematic method will help to avoid any forms of bias and will also be used to provide a much greater scope to the conduction of the research.

As mentioned earlier the following research will be taking the help of the primary research to deduce the aims and objectives of the research and also attain the goals of the project. The data collected through the survey methods will be used to analyze both the even and the null hypothesis of the research.

The most basic consideration for the conduction of the research is the use of the ethical research methods to make sure that the research is free from any form of allegations and misconducts. A research including the use of the primary data needs to have a more proper form of ethics in place than that of the secondary data based researches. The sole reason behind such a thing is the involvement of the research participants or the ones who will be providing the responses. The first and foremost task of the formulator of the research will be to maintain the physical safety and security of the participants. Apart from that the researcher must also reserve top respect and dignity for the participants of the following research. The information that will be gathered during the conduction of the survey must also be maintained properly and safely stored and secured. The responses as well as the respondents of the research participants must also be kept confidential and should not be disclosed in any way. Last but not the least the formulator of the research must make it a point to maintain the prefixed aims and objectives till the completion of the research.

 Table No 1: Time Schedule

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