Title: Fieldwork in tourism : methods, issues and reflections /
Authors: Hall, Colin Michael, 1961-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Tourism Research.
Abstract: "The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences. Such conditions create specific concerns for the tourism researcher in terms of their positionality, relationality, accessibility, ethics, reflexivity, and methodological appropriateness.
Contents: 1 Fieldwork in Tourism-Touring Research: Where Does Tourism End and Fieldwork Begin? / C. Michael Hall -- 2 Defining and Redefining Conceptual Frameworks for Social Science Field Research / Alan Lew -- Research Relationships: Power, Politics and Patron-client Affinities -- 3 Researching the Political in Tourism: Where Knowledge Meets Power / C. Michael Hall -- 4 The Visible/Invisible Researcher: Ethics and Politically-Sensitive Research / Stephanie Chok -- 5 Interviewing Elites: Perspectives from the Medical Tourism Sector in India and Thailand / Audrey Bochaton and Bertrand Lefebvre -- Positionality: Researcher Position in the Field, Practicalities, Perils, and Pitfalls -- 6 Reflexivity and Ethnography in Community Tourism Research / Teresa Leopold -- 7 Doing 'Risky' and 'Sexy' Research: Reframing the Concept of 'Relational' in Qualitative Research / Reiko Yamagishi -- 8 Studying Halal Restaurants in New Zealand: Experiences and Perspectives of a Muslim Female Researcher / Melissa wan Hassan -- 9 Researching Heritage Tourism in Singapore: An Outsider Perspective as an Asset? / David Tantow -- 10 Cosmopolitan Methodologies: Implications of the Ethnographer's Multiple Positions in Studying Tourism / Malita Allan -- 11 Allowing Women's Voices to be Heard in Tourism Research: Competing Paradigms of Method / Jo Bensemann -- Methods and Processes -- 12 Studying Local-to-Global Tourism Dynamics Through Glocal Ethnography / Noel B. Salazar -- 13 Researching Second Home Tourism in South Africa: Methodological Challenges and Innovations / Gijsbert Hoogendoorn and Gustav Visser -- 14 Off the Record: Segmenting Informal Discussions into Viable Methodological Categories / Jamie Gillen -- 15 Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research / Jenny Chio