Urban Tourism Field Report
Topic Chosen: Sport Tourism in Newcastle, UK
The final report is an individual assignment based on your field notes and the data collected in the fieldwork visit to Newcastle. It should include, as a minimum:
An introduction to urban tourism
Discussion of relevant literature: both urban tourism and literature that relates to your chosen topic
Methodology
Results and discussion
Conclusions
Breaking down the Project
Introduction (500 words)
Literature Review/ Background / Conceptual
Information (1000 words)
Methodology (500 words)
Results / Discussion (1500 words)
Conclusions (500 words)
Bibliography
NB word count are guidelines
Introduction
Purpose Introduce your project
Introduce Urban Tourism (based on reading)
What is your project about?
What is your rationale for completing the project?
What is your overall aim?
What objectives have you set (should offer points of analysis and meet overall aim)
Structure of the project
Study area: Introduce study area (Newcastle / Type of City/ relationship to topic chosen )
Background / Conceptual Information
AKA Literature Review
Purpose: To engage with academic literature, theory and concepts
This section should be grounded in your reading
You should cover the literature on Urban Tourism
Cover the literature on your topic of study, e.g. sport tourism, nightlife tourism
You should be able to provide a conceptual link between urban tourism and your topic
Methodology
PRIMARY DATA : data that you have collected through questionnaires or interviews and observations.
Purpose: Explain exactly how you organised your research how you intend to collect data!
How, When and Where
Methods should be clearly explained and justified
Quantitative, Qualitative how did you structure questionnaire or checklists? (put questionnaire in an appendix)
Limitations what problems did you face and how could these be overcome?
Re
sults Discussion
Organise into sections / subheadings
Explain your results
Critically analyse your findings
Present Results Thematically:
Description to Evaluation
Link Findings to Theory
Pay attention to objectives, make sure you are able to address each of these through your data analysis.
Conclusion
Summary of your main or most important findings
Answer your research questions (aims and objectives)
Reflect on project as a whole
Suggest future projects
Bibliography
Harvard Referencing format
Book
Author, (Year). Title. Publisher, Place of publish
Journal
Author, (year). Title of paper. Journal title. Volume. Issues. Page numbers 1-10
List of references in alphabetical order, do not separate books, journal
Last Completed Projects
topic title
academic level
Writer
delivered
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