Know yourself: Making the visual work in tourism research

Tourism can begin anywhere, at any time, and in any place. Research by Graburn (1977), Bruner (2005), and especially Harrison (2003) on tourists pre-and post-tour, their motivations, and their ways of being tourists, shows how tourism can be deeply significant to everyday lives in the form of stories, anticipation, and future expectations. But, of course, tourism is not just about the tourist. Recent works on the impact of tourism in host communities provide critical perspectives on the experience of living in tourism and of depending upon tourism for everyday economic survival (e.g. Abram, Walden and Macleod 1997; Oakes 1998; Walsh 2001).