Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues and Reflections (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) - Softcover
Book 23 of 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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About the Author
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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