ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, consideration of Denzin and Lincoln’s (1998) framework on the evolution and development of qualitative research provided some indication of the range of issues yet to be explored by tourism researchers. Further, the review of tourism journals discussed in that chapter has served to illustrated that, to date, qualitative tourism studies have been predominantly located within Denzin and Lincoln’s (1998) first two ‘moments’ (‘traditional’ and ‘modernist’), with some evidence of thirdmoment studies (‘blurred genre’) emerging and discussions of fourth-(‘crisis in representation’) and fifth-moment issues beginning to filter through to influence research practices.
