Building on a Bourdieusian approach, an updated version of Bourdieu’s main sociological thinking tools was used to analyse the creative habitus of both the supply and demand involved in the co-creation of creative tourism experiences. In addition, this type of tourism is presented as more responsible and sustainable than other types of massified forms of tourism. Ĭompared inductively gathered findings from US policies to global experts’ policy recommendations to evaluate status of conservation policy.Creative tourism studies remain a newly developed field, pointing to changes in the consumption of tourism and culture while influencing how creativity and co-creation differentiate tourism supply through exploring the existential dimensions of creative experiences, the latter remaining an under-researched theme in the creative tourism literature.

The close-reading analysis mixed both conventional (inductive) and directed (deductive) content analysis approaches to reveal the spectrum of new legislative innovations and to describe evolving views of pollinating insects. Qualitative content analysis of all US state-level laws passed from 2000 to 2017 addressing insect pollinators (N = 109). Applying proven methods from the health sciences and communication studies can aid large-scale analysis of legal texts. Our analysis blended both conventional (inductive) and directed (deductive) content analysis approaches to reveal the spectrum of new legislative innovations and to describe lawmakers’ evolving view of pollinating insects. We used QSR International’s NVivo 10 text-based analytic software to organize and document our close-reading (line-by-line coding) of 109 laws to address insect pollinator population declines. The policies selected constitute a census-not a sample-of policies passed then approved by all US state legislatures and signed by state Governors into law from 2000 to 2017. Content analysis is used to describe these policies quantitatively (number of policies and frequency per year) and qualitatively (topic, comparison of policy instruments used). This project examines sub-national legislative policy to identify trends and describe policy innovations for addressing insect pollinator declines.

Nvivo discourse analysis