ABSTRACT
Tourism studies has been moving steadily towards a ‘critical turn’ (Ateljevic, Harris, Wilson, & Collins, 2005), demonstrating a post-modern/post-structural effort to deconstruct the cultural politics of tourism research and the dominant processes involved in the so-called ‘making of knowledge’. Questions and debates in tourism studies surrounding ontology, epistemology, methodology and reflexivity have been central within this critical turn, reflecting elements of Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln's (2000, 2005) Seventh, Eighth and Ninth moments of qualitative research. The Seventh moment heralded a:
new age where messy, uncertain, multivoiced texts, cultural criticism, and new experimental works will become more common, as will more reflexive forms of fieldwork, analysis, and intertextual representation. (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000, p. 24)
