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The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism

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  • Editor: Buchmann, Annæ
  • Editor: Cassinger, Cecilia
  • Editor: Eskilsson, Lena
  • Editor: Månsson, Maria

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Contents

  • 1 .
  • Introduction In the juncture of media convergence and tourism – towards a research agenda.
  • Part I - Critical and conceptual entrance points to the field.
  • 2. Invited contribution - The Janus face of transmedia tourism: Towards a logistical turn in media and tourism studies. 3 . Invited contribution - Mind the gap: Interdisciplinary approaches to media and tourism.
  • 4. Theme Parks – Where media and tourism converge.
  • 5. Cinematic tourism in a time of media convergence: A spatial framework.
  • 6. What do Melania Trump tourism and Dracula tourism have in common? ‘Othering’ in the Western media discourse.
  • 7. Confronting the gaze, gripping the virtual: A cultural materialist perspective on cinema-tourism studies.
  • 8. Promoting cultural heritage in a post-digital context: A speculative future for the online archive
  • 9. Physical digital labour and the commoditisation of cultural Sites: Mediatising tourism through social mapping.
  • Part II - Mediatized places and spaces.
  • 10. Football tourism and the sounds of televised matches.
  • 11. Pop idols, mediatized places, and identity-oriented performances of fans as domestic tourists in Japan. 12 . Do you feel the warmth? The online destination image of Southeast Asia.
  • 13. Tourism and popcorns: The role of feature films in branding and marketing destination New Zealand
  • 14. Official destination websites: A place’s showcase to the world. 15 . Doing as directed: Analysing representations of travel in contemporary Bollywood cinema.
  • 16. Representation of food and tourism in legacy media: rediscovering the roots.
  • 17. Liminality and the stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective.
  • Part III - Circle of representation.
  • 18. Co-creation constrained: Exploring gazes of the destination on Instagram.
  • 19. Representations of a Green Ireland: a case study of global franchises Star Wars and Game of Thrones.
  • 20. Representation of the UAE as a touristic destination in Nat Geo Abu Dhabi: An analytical study.
  • 21. Rewriting history, revitalizing heritage: Heritage-based contents tourism in the Asia-Pacific region.
  • 22. Challenges of film-induced tourism in Croatia: From Winnetou to Game of Thrones.
  • 23. Beaten tracks: belatedness and anti-tourism in guidebooks.
  • 24. Film tourism and a changing cultural landscape for New Zealand: The influence of Pavlova westerns.
  • 25. Tourists’ place-making performances through music.
  • 26. Tourists’ filmic representations on YouTube: A case study analysis of two mediatised visits to the Mursi in Ethiopia.
  • Part IV - Tourists as media producers.
  • 27. Star gazing: The nexus and disparity between the media, tourism, and cultural heritage in Ireland.
  • 28. Commemorating popular media heritage: From shrines of fandom to sites of memory.
  • 29. Media tourism, culinary cultures, and embodied fan experience: Visiting Hannibal ’s Florence.
  • 30. Scene hunting for anime locations: Otaku tourism in Cool Japan.
  • 31. Behind-the-(museum)scenes: Fan-curated exhibitions as tourist attractions.
  • 32. Creative fandoms and the mediatized sacred sites.
  • 33. I came, I saw, I selfied: Travelling in the age of Instagram.
  • 34. The mediatization of Sherlock Holmes: Autoethnographic observations on literary and film tourism.
  • 35. Cultural intimacy of fans/travellers: popular culture and the politics of classification.
  • Part V - Transmedia tourism. The role of stories in travel posts to social media.
  • 37. Evaluating multiple portrayals of destination image: Assessing, categorising, and authenticating visuals on Facebook posted by national tourism organisations.
  • 38. The digital tourist bureau: Challenges and opportunities when transferring to a digital value creation.
  • 39. Tourist information search in the age of mediatization.
  • 40. Towards sustainable nautical tourism - exploring transmedia storytelling.
  • 41. The nexus between tourism heritage attraction, media and fashion.
  • 42. Online and on tour: the smartphone effect in transmedia contexts.
  • 43. Smartphone as the invisible backpack: The impact of smartphone on Chinese backpackers’ mobility pattern.
  • 44. Afterword - Participatory placemakers: socio-spatial orderings along the nexus of tourism and media