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Brown2007
BibType ARTICLE
Key Brown2007
Author(s) Barry Brown
Title Working the problems of tourism
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Tag(s) EMCA, tourist practices, ethnography, ethnomethodology
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Year 2007
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Journal Annals of Tourism Research
Volume 34
Number 2
Pages 364–383
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DOI 10.1016/j.annals.2006.09.003
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Abstract

Much research looks at the “problem of tourism”: tourists cause changes to both themselves and their destinations, influences which are open to critique or comment. Somewhat less attention has been given to the “problems of tourists”: the issues, worries, difficulties, and solutions during vacations. This article presents an ethnographic study that attempts to take these concerns seriously. The focus is on the “work” of tourism: the organization and arrangement of the experience. The paper describes how tourists work in groups, use maps and guidebooks, and lastly pre- and post- visit places. An ethnomethodological approach is applied to the different ways in which tourists collaboratively find solutions to their problems.

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