Fieldwork for Literary Travel Writers Exploring theory to improve fieldwork Salazar (2011) looks within cultural production to investigate regulation and power relations. His motivation is that a failure by the DMO and tourism scholars to understand how imaginaries are embedded within powerful institutions, for example, the state and local government, results in a loss of the development of new tourism practices (Salazar 2011). He shows that imaginaries can be studied even though their workings are hidden (Salazar 2011) by developing a research methodology derived from ethno-methodology which uses field-notes in a very similar method to Edgar Morin's work on Brittany (Morin 2013). Salazar presents what he calls, ethnographic examples. These are short narrative sketches of encounters between a local tourist guide and the tourists to whom he is providing a service (Salazar 2011). Neither Salazar nor his research fieldworker appears in the sketch, not even as the explicit narrato
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