Description
Book SynopsisThe Tourist Experience is complex, intrinsically personal, and highly emotional. Consequently, it is not easy to understand what it is that drives us to continue to travel, and to return to places visited. It is important for all sides of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries to understand what tourists are searching for as well as what they experience, with emotions playing a central role.
The research outlined in Unravelling Travelling: Uncovering Tourist Emotions through Autoethnography delves into the deep, personal, and very subjective emotions experienced while travelling to foreign places. Taking an autoethnographic approach, this evocative, reflexive, critical and analytical study uncovers a range of personal emotional drivers that resonate across disciplinary boundaries.
Examining the development of autoethnography in the social sciences, where the researchers often expose deeply personal experiences that cannot be directly interpreted from an outsider’s perspective, Unravelling Travelling offers an in-depth commentary on the role of autoethnography in the tourism field. This personal account from author Sue Beeton goes beyond simple memoir, exposing the practices of researcher, as well as the methodology employed. Personal travel narratives and poems not only uncover emotions that may not be evident through other research approaches, but also by being highly critical of her own work, Beeton argues the case for and against autoethnography itself.
Table of ContentsSection I: The Theory
Chapter 1. From Experiences to Emotions
Chapter 2. The Self as Data: Autoethnography
Chapter 3. Autoethnography in Travel and Tourism
Chapter 4: The Story So Far…
Section II: The Stories
Chapter 5. An Unlikely Pair?
Chapter 6. My Stories
Section III: What Does It Mean?
Chapter 7. Analytical Autoethnographic Process
Chapter 8. Analytical Autoethnography Outcomes
Chapter 9. Evocative Autoethnography Outcomes – A Debate with Myself
Section IV: Conclusion
Chapter 10. Assessing Autoethnography
Chapter 11. So What?
