Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction to Visual Methods and their use in Tourism Studies Part 2: Paradigms, Academic Disciplines, and Theory 2. Realism vs. Relativism and ‘The Visual’ in Studies of Tourism 3. The Discipline and the (in)Discipline of ‘The Visual’ in Tourism Studies Part 3: Methods 4. Collecting Visual Materials From Secondary Sources 5. Mediating Photographs in Interviews and Observations: Photo-Elicitation in Tourism Research 6. Visuals as Producing Data and Accessing Embodied Spaces of Tourism Research 7. Creating Visual Materials in the Field: Video 8. Using the Drawing Method in Tourism Research Part 4: Analysis and Representation 9. Reading Visual Material 10. From Content to Context: Methods for Analysing Visual Data 11. Representing ‘The Visual Data’ in Tourism Studies Publications Part 5: Conclusion 12. The Future of Visual Methods in Tourism Studies

About the Author

Tijana Rakic holds a Ph.D. from Edinburgh Napier University, UK, where she is currently a Lecturer in Tourism and Events and Deputy Postgraduate Tourism Programmes Leader. Donna Chambers holds a Ph.D. Tourism from Brunel University and currently lectures in tourism and is Programme Director for the MSc International Events Management at the University of Surrey, UK.