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Summary:

"Working on your Master Thesis or Ph. D. Dissertation, have you ever felt the limits of your methodological toolbox when it comes to grasping the complexity or messiness that emerges when you begin scratching the surface of your drawn up research agenda? As an experienced researcher, are you preoccupied with the ways your actions in "doing" and "thinking" research have affected and continue to affect your research outcomes? Have you looked for new types of "doing" research but felt discouraged by traditional perceptions of good and bad data sources or you have looked for alternative paths to creating better and richer research materials while acknowledging the (co)creative aspects of knowledge production? If you can recognize the above or similar issues, you might find the present book of inspiration. Tourism Methodologies is aimed at researchers who share our desire to engage with new and innovative approaches to an already well established repertoire of tourism methodologies. The book deals with a wide variety of themes relating to qualitative tourism research but, in particular, it addresses how the issues of meaning making, mobility and performance are integrated elements in the research process"--Page 4 of cover.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Pushing methodological boundaries in tourism research / Lulu Anne Hansen, Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt, Kristian Anders Hvass and Jane Widtfeldt Meged
• 2. All is data
• the ontological status of empirical materials in tourism / Lulu Anne Hansen
• 3. Snapshots vs. signatures: studying the defining marks of tourist moments / Karina M. Smed
• 4. A life posted: 'Netnographic' approaches to tourist studies / Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt and Manuel Marabese
• 5. Engaging with mobile methods: tourism research and the production of the mobile / Martin Trandberg Jensen
• 6. A methodology fro 'mis-guided' research: from guided tours to counter-terrorism / Phil Smith
• 7. Actor-network theory and tourism research: approaches, implications and future opportunities / Gunnar Thor Jóhannesson, Carina Ren, René van der Duim and ANders Kristian Munk
• 8. Doing research in a destination / Bettina Munch
• 9. Accentuating complexity and ambiguity: dialogism and its methodological implications / Can-Seng Ooi
• 10. Walking methods and tourism knowledge for design: using the iMaCam smartphone-app as a research tool / Mads Bødker, David Browning and Nina Dam Meinhardt
• 11. Video: researching visitor interactions / Jane Widfeldt Meged and Connie Svabo
• 12. A bridge spanning the qualitative and quantitative chasm / Kristian Anders Hvass.

Contributors:

Meged, Jane Widtfeldt , editor

Blichfeldt, Bodil Stilling , editor

Hansen, Lulu Anne , editor

Hvass, Kristian Anders , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Tourism — Research — Methodology

Qualitative research

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

G155.7 .T68 2014eb

ISBNs:

9788763003339 (electronic bk.)
8763003333 (electronic bk.)
8763003171 [Invalid]
9788763003179 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

945483947

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4186626 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12900845