Fieldwork in tourism : methods, issues and reflections / edited by C. Michael Hall. - xiv, 322 pages ; 23 cm. - Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility . - Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fieldwork in tourism/touring fields: where does tourism end and fieldwork begin? / Defining and redefining conceptual frameworks for social science field research / Researching the political in tourism: where knowledge meets power / The visible/invisible researcher: ethics and politically sensitive research / Interviewing elites: perspectives from the medical tourism sector in India and Thailand / Reflexivity and ethnography in community tourism research / Doing 'risky' and 'sexy' research: reframing the concept of 'relational' in qualitative research / Studying halal restaurants in New Zealand: experiences and perspectives of a Muslim female researcher / Researching heritage tourism in Singapore: an outsider perspective as an asset? / Cosmopolitan methodology: implications of the ethnographer's multiple and shifting relationships in studying ethnic tourism / Allowing women's voices to be heard in tourism research: competing paradigms of method / Studying local-to-global tourism dynamics through glocal ethnography / Researching second home tourism in South Africa: methodological challenges and innovations / Off the record: segmenting informal discussions into viable methodological categories / Know yourself: making the visual work in tourism research / Work it out: using work as participant observation to study tourism / Researching tourists in the outdoors: challenges and experiences from protected areas in Sweden / Challenges in fieldwork: researching group service experiences at a white water rafting provider in New Zealand / Facing rejection: volunteer tourists whom I could not interview / In cyberspace can anybody hear you scream? issues in the conduct of online fieldwork / Integrating researchers and indigenous communities: reflections from Northern Canada / Managing post-fieldwork interpersonal relationships: mea (maxima?) culpa / Concluding thoughts: where does fieldwork end and tourism begin? / C. Michael Hall -- Alan A. Lew -- C. Michael Hall -- Stephanie Chok -- Audrey Bochaton and Bertrand Lefebvre -- Teresa Leopold -- Reiko Yamagishi -- Melissa Wan Hassan -- David Tantow -- Malita Allan -- Jo Bensemann -- Noel B. Salazar -- Gijsbert Hoogendoorn and Gustav Visser -- Jamie Gillen -- Jenny Chio -- Chris McMorran -- Sandra Wall Reinius -- Jörg Finsterwalder and Volker G. Kuppelwieser -- Harng Luh Sin -- C. Michael Hall -- R.H. Lemelin, E. Wiersma and E.J. Stewart -- David Timothy Duval -- C. Michael Hall. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

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