ABSTRACT

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates, questions and controversies of tourism in the wake of popular culture phenomena and explores the relationships between popular culture, globalization, tourism and mobility. In addition, it offers a cross-disciplinary, cutting edge review of the character of popular cultural production and consumption trends, analyzing their consequences for tourism, spatial strategies and destination competitiveness.

The scope of the volume encompasses various expressions of popular culture such as cinema, TV shows, music, literature, sports and heritage. Featuring a mix of theoretical and empirical chapters, the handbook problematizes and conceptualizes the ties and clusters of popular cultural actors, thereby positioning tourism within the wider context of creative economies, cultural planning and multimodal technologies.

Written by an international team of academics with expertise in a range of disciplines, this timely book will be of interest to researchers from a variety of subjects including tourism, events, geography, cultural studies, fandom research, political economy, business, media studies and technology.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Beneath the trivial façade of popular culture
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part I|60 pages

Setting the stage

chapter 1|10 pages

What is popular culture?

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chapter 2|12 pages

Tourism and popular culture

Socio-cultural considerations
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chapter 3|12 pages

Synontological spaces

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chapter 4|11 pages

Apocalypto and the end of days

Basking in the Maya’s shadow
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part II|134 pages

Broadening the scope

chapter 6|12 pages

Popular culture tourism

Films and tourist demand
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chapter 8|12 pages

Imagining the medieval in the modern world

Film, fantasy and heritage
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chapter 9|8 pages

Tuning in

Setting the scene for music tourism
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chapter 11|11 pages

Transactional bodies

Dance, tourism, and idea(l)s of Cubanness
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chapter 12|14 pages

The voyeur at leisure

Flânerie in a miniature city – the urban phenomena of Madurodam
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chapter 14|9 pages

Hunters, climbers, flâneurs

How video games create and design tourism
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chapter 16|12 pages

Sun, surf, sex, and the everyday

Subverting the tourist gaze with Gold Coast narrative fiction
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chapter 17|6 pages

Fandom and its afterlife

Celebrity cemetery tourism
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part III|71 pages

Performing fan cultures

chapter 18|11 pages

Passing through

Popular media tourism, pilgrimage, and narratives of being a fan
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chapter 20|8 pages

On the road—again

Revisiting pop music concert tourism
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chapter 21|14 pages

Music fans as tourists

The mysterious ways of individual and social dimensions
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chapter 22|14 pages

“There were only friendly people and love in the air”

Fans, tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest
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chapter 23|10 pages

The (promotional) value of public-spiritedness

Irish football fans at Euro 2016
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part IV|115 pages

Getting on the map

chapter 24|14 pages

#Literaryme

The legacy of the Bloomsbury Group on London’s literary village
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chapter 25|11 pages

“I went to India to find myself”

Tracing world cinema’s neoliberal orientalisms
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chapter 26|11 pages

The force meets the kittiwake

Shooting Star Wars on Skellig Michael
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chapter 27|14 pages

The narrative capital of the place

How the Millennium narratives generate place-related values and attract tourists to Sweden
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chapter 28|15 pages

A ‘touristed landscape’

Speculations about ‘consuming history’, using a case study of an Australian folk hero
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chapter 30|12 pages

Playing at home

Popular culture tourism and place-making in Japan
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chapter 31|11 pages

Traveling to icons or icons on travel

Displacement and representation of places in movies
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chapter 32|12 pages

The Indianization of Switzerland

Destination transformations in the wake of Bollywood films
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part V|107 pages

Establishing a common ground

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chapter 34|10 pages

Film tourism collaborations

A critical analysis of INTERREG destination development projects
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chapter 36|12 pages

(G)A(i)ming at the throne

Social media and the use of visitor-generated content in destination marketing
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chapter 38|14 pages

Visitor experiences of popular culture museums in islands

A management and policy approach
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chapter 39|13 pages

Lifestyle tourism

Combining place attachment and involvement in a destination management approach
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chapter 40|11 pages

Destination development in the wake of popular culture tourism

Proposing a comprehensive analytic framework
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Conclusion

Building a research agenda for popular culture tourism
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