Are we doing enough for visual research in tourism? The past, present, and future of tourism studies using photographic images

Abstract

The importance of visuality in tourism has increased the number of studies that situate photography into the discourse of visual images. However, the majority of studies continue to be qualitative research. This paper highlights how visual research in tourism has not yet widened the scope of research and has overlooked a variety of photographic content that has the potential to inform other important aspects of visuality in tourism research. It attempts to make a particular contribution to tourism visual research by bridging the research gaps in the relevant tourism literature through corroborating innovative approaches from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

RAS ID

26688

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2018

Location of the Work

United Kingdom

School

School of Business and Law

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons, Ltd

Comments

Park, E., & Kim, S. (2018). Are we doing enough for visual research in tourism? The past, present, and future of tourism studies using photographic images. International Journal of Tourism Research. 20(4), 433-441. Available here.

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.1002/jtr.2194