Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues and Reflections - Couverture souple
Livre 23 sur 103: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Synopsis
This is the first book to focus on this significant component of Tourism research. Given the inherent mobile nature of tourists as well as short period of interaction with tourists and visitors this creates specific challenges in the field for the Tourism researcher between self and other, relationships between researcher and informant, ethical challenges and various types of field research that can be conducted. This book provides hands on approaches to conducting fieldwork in a range of settings and in doing so explores these tourism specific fieldwork methodological considerations and offers strategies to mitigate these. The book incorporates a rich and diverse set of fieldwork experiences from leading international scholars which offers insight into the realities of field research process, how students and researchers can attempt to tackle challenging out in the field issues and methodologies that may be employed, as well as tips on writing up results.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
This book incorporates a rich and diverse set of fieldwork experiences, insights and reflections on conducting fieldwork in different settings, the problems that emerge, the solutions that were developed, and the realities of being ‘in the field’. Fieldwork in Tourism is an essential guide for Tourism higher level students, academics and researchers embarking on research in this field.
Biographie de l'auteur
C. Michael Hall is Professor in the Department of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and Visiting Professor, Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics, Kalmar, Sweden. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism, he has published widely in tourism, gastronomy and environmental history.
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