ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discuss how researchers most commonly utilize their images to make their points or support the arguments they are presenting orally or in print. They argue a position that prioritizes images as being as persuasive and meaningful as text for both academic and popular audiences. The authors outline how to prepare our images for presentations, publications, and the web no matter how people are using them. Digital storytelling is a method for taking our photos (and videos) and sequencing them with an audio track to create a short video that tells a story. The relationships between tourism, media representations, photographic practices, cultural performances, and even the built environment suggest theoretically innovative and challenging approaches to the use and study of images in tourism studies research. Historically, images have been most commonly used in print media; authors discuss how to prepare them—whether for use in the field or as part of journal submissions.
