Fieldwork in Tourism : Methods, Issues and Reflections (Hardcover)

Introducing the Contexts of Fieldwork  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 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  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 Joerg Finsterwalder and Volker G. Kuppelwieser  19 On Facing Rejection: Volunteer Tourists that I Could Not Interview Harng Luh Sin  Future Directions and New Environments  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