Thomas Cook Collapse Impact to Business and Travel Industry

Brief summary of whole Dissertation including methodology, main findings,
conclusions & recommendations

Introduction/Background
Background to topic.
Background to company.
Any historical aspect of problem.
Any change in legislation leading to problem.
Brief overview of structure of remainder of report.

Literature Review
Introduction to factors involved, relevant theory & underpinning knowledge.
Details & implications of any new legislation.
Critical discussion of recent articles on topic under headings of key factors.
Use of a good range of quality, up to date sources of literature.
Conclusion summarising factors to be researched.

Methodology
Account of all the activities contained within the Dissertation to include:
Justification of research method(s) chosen & why other methods not chosen,
Full details of execution of research,
Design of questionnaires for survey, interview or focus group,
Discussion of reliability & precautions against bias
e.g. pilot study & sampling for surveys, conduct & choice of participants for
interviews or focus groups, choice of case studies or secondary data for
archival research, choice & validity of web sites & journal articles, variety of
research methods chosen etc.
Methods of analysis used,
Attempts to make conclusions and recommendations.

Findings
Results of surveys, interviews, focus groups – referenced to questionnaires / transcript of interviews in Appendices.
Tables and graphs in this section or referenced to Appendices.
Summaries of secondary data collected.
Descriptive account of results from archival research.

Analysis & Discussion
Comparison and discussion of results obtained from research method(s).
Test any hypotheses.
Explain and justify any deductions made from data collected.
Link findings back to literature review.

Conclusions & Recommendations
Overall conclusions.
Link back to terms of reference.
Recommendations and justification for solution of problem.
Usefulness of research to business.

Evaluation
Successful and unsuccessful features of the Dissertation
Research skills learnt for use in a future research project.
Difficulties encountered and how they were overcome.
What could have been done differently for better results.
Importance of time management & reliability of collected data.