ABSTRACT
Although biographical research techniques have been widely used and recognised in sociology and history for the deep insight they can provide into individual lives, the technique has hardly been used in the field of leisure and tourism. This is a pity as biographical research methods have the potential to provide much insight into people's leisure and tourism behaviour. To demonstrate, this chapter focuses on the leisure of older women and, in particular, the leisure of Alice, an 85-year-old woman, to show how identifying the influence of both structure and agency upon her life course, allows us to understand the context and significance of her current leisure behaviour.
