Impact of Climate Change on Island Tourism Destination

APPENDIX 1 – FM POSTGRADUATE DISSERTATION PROPOSAL FORM
Student Name:
Programme:
PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM PROMPTLY AND AS FULLY AS YOU ARE ABLE
This form is used by your Dissertation Co-ordinator to allocate you an academic member of staff from
within the Faculty who will be able to guide you during the production of your dissertation. Your
Dissertation Co-ordinator will respond to any general questions you raise prior to your dissertation
supervisor allocation, so please make it clear if you have questions or concerns that you wish him/her
to either take account of in allocating a supervisor or to respond to.
A1 - INDICATION OF POSSIBLE TITLE
Ensure that your intended title is as specific as possible and accurately reflects what you intend to do.
The title may of course change as your dissertation develops, so your final submission may well end
up with a revised title to this.
“Impact of climate change on island tourism destination” is the Project Title
A2 - POTENTIAL AIM AND OBJECTIVES
State the overall aim of your research ensuring that it is sufficiently focused and list the research
objectives that you consider you will have to set in order to meet this aim (normally 4-6 in total).
AIM:
“To Evaluate the impact of climate change on island tourism destination. The case study of Isle
Portland in England, UK.
OBJECTIVES:
 To understand the impact of climate change on Island tourism destination.
 To evaluate impacts of climate change on the Isle Portland tourism destination.
 To identify the reasons of climate changes due to this Portland tourism destination
affected.
 To suggest several solutions to resolve identified issues so that Portland tourism

destination can make more attractive for the tourists.
A3 - POTENTIAL METHODOLOGY
Outline the data you need to collect and how it is to be collected as precisely as possible, including:
What methods you will use to collect this data and why have you chosen them? What sort of
questions
you will ask? Who you will ask - how many and how they will be chosen? How will you analyse the
data?
 Research Type: It is process of searching, interpreting and analysing new thoughts and
ideas in effective manner. Qualitative and quantitative are two types of research which
helps in gathering data effectively (Byrd, 2020). Qualitative research method is quite
simpler method that helps in maintaining quality of data while gathering information
related research topic. On the other hand, quantitative method provides information into
mathematical figure which can be interpreted only by highly skilled and talented scholars.
In this research proposal will use qualitative research method because this research
assignment requires high level of quality then logical conclusion can be portrayed.
 Research Approach: It is another effective method that also supports in research project to
collect information effectively. There are two types research approaches such as inductive
and deductive. Inductive research approach is done on human insights which is observed
by the qualitative method. While deductive research approach is done on quantitative
method. This research type is qualitative type so inductive research approach will use in
this research assignment (Lune and Berg, 2017).
 Research Philosophy: It is one of the most effective method because it helps in enhancing
potential of data collection. There are two type research philosophies i.e. positivism and
interpretivism. Interpretivism method is philosophy supports in understanding the reality of
the business environment on the other hand, positivism method gives realistic facts that are
already available in the business market. However, positivism research Philosophy will use
for this research proposal because it supports in creating authentic and realistic theories.
 Sampling: Random sampling method will use for this research because it allows scholar to
select people randomly without any discrimination. For example, 100 tourists will select as
a sample population for this research who will share their views through the questionnaires
over the proposed research topic.

 Data Collection: It is another effective method that supports in collecting authentic data
related to research topic. There are two methods of data collections such as primary and
secondary. Primary data collection method supports in colleting data from interview
session while secondary data collection method supports in gathering data from available
resources i.e. newspapers, published articles and research papers, social media and internet.
In this research proposal will use both data collection methods primary and secondary
because both will support in authentic information from different resources.
 Data Analysis: When the data is gathered from the primary and secondary data collection
methods then that is interpreted by the thematic analysis method. It is a one of the most
effective method of data analysis. It supports in distributing overall collected data into
different themes which become easier for the scholar to interpret them effectively and draw
a logical conclusion of the research. So, thematic data analysis method will use for this
research because it helps to prepare questionnaires in effective manner.