Where words fail, visuals ignite. Opportunities for visual autoethnography in tourism research

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 905-926

  Scarles, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Embodied; Performance; Photography; Visual

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; RESEARCH WORK; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77956240565     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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