ABSTRACT
This article challenged an over-fixed entity about the insider/outsider stance on the account of qualitative tourism research in the social science research methodology. Via introducing the concept of emergence in critical realism, contingency, and multiple-linear thinking, this article elucidates a contemporary merging borderless world forwarded by modern infinitive technological development. Findings show that tourism researchers’ have individual preferences and pending needs to jump out of the inside/outside innate prejudice and positionality. The conclusive discussion reintroduces Heidegger's phenomenological “being” concept as a final resolution with an in-between stance for a quest for a comparatively more objective and comparatively neutral standing point for social science researchers in the tourism sector.
