Fieldwork in tourism [electronic resource] : methods, issues and reflections / edited by C. Michael Hall.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010, c2011.
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| Series: | Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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MKTG 349
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Summary: | 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. "Fieldwork in Tourism" is the first book to focus on this extremely significant component of contemporary tourist research and provides hands on approaches to conducting tourism fieldwork in a range of settings, exploring the methodological considerations and offering strategies to mitigate these. The book also discusses how fieldwork affects researchers personally and what happens to field relationships. Divided into five sections, each with an introduction and a guide to further reading, the chapters cover the context of fieldwork, research relationships, politics and power, the position of the researcher in the field, research methods and processes, including virtual fieldwork, and the relationships between being a tourist and doing fieldwork.The concluding chapter suggests that the link between tourism and fieldwork perhaps offers greater insights into understanding creative fieldwork than may be imagined. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 322 p.) : ill. |
| Other format: | Print version: Fieldwork in tourism : methods, issues and reflections. 9780415589192 |
| Notes: | Title from e-book t.p. screen (viewed Apr. 14, 2011). Bib#: 1632871 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780203845516 (electronic bk.) 020384551X (electronic bk.) |
| Bib#: | 1632871 |
