5.3
Learning and development during thesis process
Regarding my own development and learning process during the thesis process a
couple of this come to mind.
First of all, the resource of time was against me in the development of this report. At
first the planning seemed concrete that if I would follow all the steps I would be able
to finish on time, or as preferred before May. Yet this was not the case. Unfortunately
I had courses during the 1
st
and 2
nd
period which heavily affected my ability to work on
this report. Never the less I had pushed through, finished my literature review on time
but then came the scheduling of interviews. I had already foretold that half of the
participants would actually participate in having an interview and after having contact
12 hotels for an interview in the end only 4 participants actually took part in the
interviews.
I was disappointed because of this but then decided that even such as small sample
could provide interesting information and provide more clarity on the objective of this
thesis.
Secondly, during the presentation part, I was thoroughly delighted to have received
such critical but constructive feedback which lead to the improvement of this report.
Even though there were positive remarks about this report I was more focussed on the
critical parts which still needed work or touch which would lead to finishing this
report. In the end I am quite happy with the process of this all, it was a such an eye
opener to grasp the time and resources it takes to write a proper qualitative research
report especially the time it takes to designing the proper framework to acquire the
adequate results needed.
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