Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing

This book addresses the production of knowledge and performances of collaboration in tourism. It bridges the gap between theory and the lived realities of tourism development, tourism management, and the creation and implementation of tourism-related policies. The book draws on particular theoretical and methodological perspectives that situate academic tourism studies not as anex post factocritique of tourism practices, but as a partner in the production of knowledge through and about tourism, and in the enactment of future tourism. It is structured to offer, on the one hand, an introduction to the ontological basis behind collaborative research, and on the other hand, a set of empirical models for how collaborative knowledge creation can inform tourism design, management, and policy.