Group Interview Essay

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A rapid appraisal was done at the capital of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National park at Balloch. Observations were made around the surroundings of the national park along with informal conversations with the public who were randomly picked across the park which consisted of locals and tourists. Then after visiting the national park authority helped to gather further information through networking and snowballing help lead to a Key-informant group interview.
2.1.2: Key-informant group interview
With the key informants a formal interview was conducted which led to a group interview with members in the tourism, community development and environment departments whose main focuses on different sectors and aspects on managing the park. The …show more content…

The sample size was of 50 with 5 tourists and 45 locals and they offered a wide range of comments which were very interesting and insightful. Some of the surveys were very quick and lasted up to five minutes while there were others which continued for twenty minute as respondents were keen in learning more on the topics and had some important points to make as well. The respondents were asked on their whether they thought vandalism and anti-social behaviour had contributed more the litter issue at the park, along with if they had a positive and negative attitude towards the ban on wild camping which was enforced in 2011. Other types of questions included ranked question one on a scale on how they would feel towards the expansion on the ban of wild camping, and another in the order of importance on how them as an individual would control litter in the park this was also and open ended and stimulated further discussions.
2.1.4: Secondary sources:
Secondary sources such as newspaper articles, the National Park Authority’s Archives and manuals were examined in order to access background knowledge of the events which lead up to the ban of wild camping in 2011. Statistics were also collected from the websites to get a more accurate view on the topic this was later used to study it with the other sources of data.
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