Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism

This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia. In addition to providing a platform for researchers to publish their qualitative journeys, it aims to encourage further Asian qualitative tourism research production. The book not only includes chapters from Asian scholars but also non-Asian tourism researchers with a focus on Asia, as their chapters are crucial to represent the multiplicity of realities constituting 'Asia'. It is of interest to the whole tourism academic community as it provides novel methodological insights from a non-Western perspective, which at the moment are often silenced by dominant (Western) voices.

Auteur
Paolo Mura is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of the Postgraduate Programmes, Graduate School of Hospitality and Tourism, Taylor's University, Selangor, Malaysia. His research interests include tourist behaviour, gender and tourism, and qualitative tourism research.
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She is a Networking Committee Member of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) and is on the executive committee for the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE). She researches emerging trends in women and family travel and tourism, as well as consumer behaviour (tourists and guests), services marketing, and qualitative research methods.

Contenu

1. Locating Asian research and selves in qualitative tourism researchPaolo Mura and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
   Part I. The Move Away towards an Asian Research Paradigm2. Tourism studies and the metaphysics of presence: matters of ontology and the enlightened eyeKeith Hollinshead and Rukeya Suleman
2. Tourism and the lost mandates of knowing: matters of epistemology for the inscriptive / projective industryKeith Hollinshead and Rukeya Suleman
3. Beyond theorising: distinguishing between the limitations of critical theory and the researcherJoo-Ee Gan
4. Situating Asian tourism ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies: from colonialism to neo-colonialismSarah N. R. Wijesinghe and Paolo Mura
5. How could we be non-Western? Some ontological and epistemological ponderings on Chinese tourism researchJundan (Jasmine) Zhang
   Part II. Researching the Asian Way: Methodologies and Methods7. Qualitative research skill training: learning ethnography in the fieldStuart Hayes and Hazel Tucker
6. Working and traveling in New Zealand: a reflective narrative in the fieldHongrui Zhu, Hazel Tucker, and Tara Duncan
7. The qualitative other: an autoethnographyMatias Thuen Jørgensen
8. Understanding ethnography: an 'exotic' ethnographer's perspectiveMayukh Dewan
9. Utilising collaborative-autoethnography in exploring affinity tourism: insights from experiences in the field at Gardens by the BayJosephine Pryce and Hayley Pryce
10. Co-construction in the study of trade union movements in the Nepalese tourism industry using a grounded theory approachSandeep Basnyat
    Part III. Asian Introspection and Reflexivity in Research13. Qualitative research in tourism: reflections of an Asian researcherSushila Devi S. Rajaratnam
11. Black on brown: research paradoxes for black scholars working in ethnic communitiesSamuel Adeyinka-Ojo and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
12. Prophet or profit? Emotional reflections on Indonesian tourismDini Mariska and Eric J. Shelton
    16.'When in Rome do as the Romans do'? A reflective account on methodological approach during PhD journeyVahideh Abaeian
    VignettesVignette 1. The Yes-No-Ma'amsir BlurBrooke Porter
    Vignette 2. The power of a pilot visitNicholas Towner
    Vignette 3. How will you measure? Lessons for young, novice researchersHeesu Lee
    Vignette 4. What conflict? Interviewing South Koreans on controversial issuesMona Ji Hyun Yang
    Vignette 5. Round Peg, Square Hole: The Significance of Perceived Personal Image in AcademiaRyan Yung
    Vignette 6. Bottoms up! Secrets to overcoming cultural barriers for data collection in VietnamGiang T. Phi