Fieldwork in Tourism

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.

• Introducing the Contexts of Fieldwork 1. Fieldwork in Tourism/Touring Research: Where Does Tourism End and Fieldwork Begin? 2. Defining and Redefining Conceptual Frameworks for Social Science Field Research 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 Thailand 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 Methodologies: Implications of the Ethnographer’s Multiple Positions in Studying Tourism 11. Allowing Women’s Voices to be Heard in Tourism Research: Competing Paradigms of Method 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 Tourism 17. 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. On Facing Rejection: Volunteer Tourists that I Could Not Interview 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?) Culpa 23. Concluding Thoughts: Where Does Fieldwork End and Tourism Begin?