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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958601903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-92770-0; 1-136-92771-9; 1-282-91305-0; 9786612913051; 0-203-84551-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
• Altri autori (Persone): HallColin Michael <1961->
• Disciplina: 338.4791; 910.72/3
• Soggetti: Tourism - Research; Travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Introducing the contexts of fieldwork; 1 Fieldwork in tourism/touring fields: Where does tourism end and fieldwork begin?; 2 Defining and redefining conceptual frameworks for social science field research; Part I: Research relationships: Power, politics and patron-client affinities; 3 Researching the political in tourism: Where knowledge meets power; 4 The visible/invisible researcher: Ethics and politically sensitive research; 5 Interviewing elites: Perspectives from the medical tourism sector in India and ThailandPart II: Positionality: Researcher position in the field-practicalities, perils and pitfalls; 6 Reflexivity and ethnography in community tourism research; 7 Doing 'risky' and 'sexy' research: Reframing the concept of 'relational' in qualitative research; 8 Studying halal restaurants in New Zealand: Experiences and perspectives of a Muslim female researcher; 9 Researching heritage tourism in Singapore: An outsider perspective as an asset?; 10 Cosmopolitan methodology: Implications of the ethnographer's multiple and shifting relationships in studying ethnic tourism11 Allowing women's voices to be heard in tourism research: Competing paradigms of method; Part III: Methods and processes; 12 Studying local-to-global tourism dynamics through glocal ethnography; 13 Researching second home tourism in South Africa: Methodological challenges and innovations; 14 Off the record: Segmenting informal discussions into viable methodological categories; 15 Know yourself: Making the visual work in tourism research; 16 Work it out: Using work as participant observation to study tourism17 Researching tourists in the outdoors: Challenges and experiences from protected areas in Sweden; 18 Challenges in fieldwork: Researching group service experiences at a white water rafting provider in New Zealand; 19 Facing rejection: Volunteer tourists whom I could not interview; Part IV: Future directions and new environments; 20 In cyberspace can anybody hear you scream?: Issues in the conduct of online fieldwork; 21 Integrating researchers and indigenous communities: Reflections from Northern Canada; 22 Managing post-fieldwork interpersonal relationships: Mea (maxima?) culpa23 Concluding thoughts: Where does fieldwork end and tourism begin?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ap