Fieldwork in tourism [electronic resource] : methods, issues and reflections / edited by C. Michael Hall.

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Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010, c2011.
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Series:Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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Courses: MKTG 349
Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Fieldwork in tourism/touring fields: where does tourism end and fieldwork begin? / C. Michael Hall
  • 2. Defining and redefining conceptual frameworks for social science field research / Alan A. Lew
  • 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
  • 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 methodology: implications of the ethnographer's multiple and shifting relationships in studying ethnic tourism / Malita Allan
  • 11. Allowing women's voices to be heard in tourism research: competing paradigms of method / Jo Bensemann
  • 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
  • 16. Work it out: using work as participant observation to study tourism / Chris McMorran
  • 17. Researching tourists in the outdoors: challenges and experiences from protected areas in Sweden / Sandra Wall Reinius
  • 18. Challenges in fieldwork: researching group service experiences at a white water rafting provider in New Zealand / Jörg Finsterwalder and Volker G. Kuppelwieser
  • 19. Facing rejection: volunteer tourists whom I could not interview / Harng Luh Sin
  • 20. In cyberspace can anybody hear you scream? issues in the conduct of online fieldwork / C. Michael Hall
  • 21. Integrating researchers and indigenous communities: reflections from Northern Canada / R.H. Lemelin, E. Wiersma and E.J. Stewart
  • 22. Managing post-fieldwork interpersonal relationships: mea (maxima?) culpa / David Timothy Duval
  • 23. Concluding thoughts: where does fieldwork end and tourism begin? / C. Michael Hall.