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The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on theories, concepts and disciplinary approaches to tourism studies, the chapters in this volume are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the field. Part One: Researching Tourism Part Two: Social Analysis Part Three: Economic Analysis Part Four: Technological Analysis Part Five: Environmental Analysis Part Six: Political Analysis This handbook offers a fresh and definitive look at tourism management, making it an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.
Qualitative Research and Tourism Studies
Qualitative Research and Tourism Studies
Qualitative research is a situated activity that locates the observer in the world. … This means that qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them. (Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, 2011: 3)
Historically and globally, the use of qualitative research in tourism studies has been punctuated by a set of episodes that have been heterogeneously experienced. In the human sciences, these episodes have been referred to as ‘moments’ and include ‘traditional’, ‘modernist’, ‘blurred genres’, ‘paradigm wars’, ‘crisis of representation’, ‘postmodern’, ‘postexperimental inquiry’, ‘methodologically contested present’, ‘paradigm proliferation’, ‘the fractured posthuman ...
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