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Tanner Caterina-Knorr is a Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University, concentrating in community resources and development, with a sustainable tourism focus, and research assistant at the Center for Sustainable Tourism at ASU. His interests include tourism policy, social equity and justice, and sustainable tourism development.

Christine Vogt is professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University (ASU). She also directs the Center for Sustainable Tourism at ASU. Her research examines trip planning and information search. She is a CREST Academic Affiliate.

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Webinars and virtual conferences are effective digital platforms to bring academics and practitioners together to share and disseminate knowledge in a dynamic online format. Often, a webinar is recorded and shared, but rarely is the webinar used as a source of data analyzed for further meaning. Travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have shifted the way individuals and organizations receive new knowledge, information, and research. This study utilizes a novel method to qualitatively analyze a webinar from 2020 that discussed climate change and COVID-19 in relation to the tourism industry. Findings were validated in various ways to show the efficacy of this method. This research adds to the literature by testing a new framework and introducing a new approach to assess, compile, summarize, and graphically represent knowledge disseminated within a webinar setting.

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A Novel Method to Analyze Tourism Webinars

Webinars and virtual conferences are effective digital platforms to bring academics and practitioners together to share and disseminate knowledge in a dynamic online format. Often, a webinar is recorded and shared, but rarely is the webinar used as a source of data analyzed for further meaning. Travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have shifted the way individuals and organizations receive new knowledge, information, and research. This study utilizes a novel method to qualitatively analyze a webinar from 2020 that discussed climate change and COVID-19 in relation to the tourism industry. Findings were validated in various ways to show the efficacy of this method. This research adds to the literature by testing a new framework and introducing a new approach to assess, compile, summarize, and graphically represent knowledge disseminated within a webinar setting.