Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism. Ontologies, Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods

Аннотация

This book is about Asian qualitative tourism research. Yes, it is exactly about these four words – “Asian”, “qualitative”, “tourism” and “research”. Can four words, just four words, be powerful enough to inspire the composition of approximately 150,000 more words that constitute this book? Can four words be powerful enough to attract the attention of 23 authors and 2 editors scattered around the world and then convince them to think, struggle and write about those four words? Can four words be powerful enough to initiate contentious debates amongst groups of academicians? The answer, as Malaysians would say in Manglish (and this is a fascinating sociolinguistics phenomenon on its own), is can.