Montag, 14. Februar 2011

Research proposal

Time is running so fast. I have the impression I just started yesterday my MA in International Tourism Management at the University of Greenwich and now I have to come up already with a topic for my dissertation...
My field of interest is special interest tourism and I have a preference for the destination Brazil. Since my future career aspiration is to work for a specialist tour operator in Europe offering Brazil tour packages for FIT or groups, I would like to focus my research on this topic. I decided to concentrate on group package tours, because I have the impression that not much research is done in this specific area. However, I am not sure yet, whether I would like to analyse the demand-side to identify who participate in group package tours to Brazil and what motivates them, or the supply-side regarding the existing offers and the process and criteria of packaging such a tour and develop an itinerary?!
What do you think? I would love to hear your opinion and am grateful for every advice and idea!