The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism (Hardcover)

Introduction Mediatization of tourism Part 1. Mediatized places and spaces Chapter 1. Liminality and the Stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective Chapter 2. ASEAN and its online image: A case study on the online destination image of South East Asia Chapter 3. Gazes of the city: Destination branding in social media Chapter 4. Feature films as destination marketing and branding opportunity: The case of New Zealand Chapter 5. Soccer tourism: On the interplay between mediated and lived experiences Chapter 6. Pop idols, tourism promotion, national branding and commodification of the national: The case of Arashi in Japan Chapter 7. Representation of food and tourism in Spanish newspapers: rediscovering the roots Chapter 8. The use of music heritage in the branding of Liverpool as a tourist destination Part 2. The cycle of representation Chapter 9. The effectiveness of documentary shows in representation the touristic destinations: A case study of National Geographic channel, Abu Dhabi Chapter 10. Playing Ulysses: Tourism & literary travel Chapter 11. Bonjour vitesse: Auto/mobilities and touristic spaces in four French films Chapter 12. Greening Ireland: From romantic evocations of landscape to global franchises including Star Wars and Game of Thrones Chapter 13. Challenges of the film-induced tourism in Croatia: from the Winnetou to the Game of Thrones Chapter 14. Pavlova Westerns: Film Tourism and a Changing Cultural Landscape Chapter 15. Film-induced tourism: a film studies perspective Chapter 16. Cinema-tourism Studies: Confronting the ‘gaze’, gripping the ‘virtual’ Chapter 17. Rewriting history, revitalizing heritage: Heritage-based contents tourism in the Asia-Pacific region Chapter 18. Blended film crews: creating a new film-tourism ecosystem in Trinidad and Tobago Chapter 19. Mediating Nature: The (Re-)View of Landscape in Film Tourism Research Part 3. Tourists as cultural producers Chapter 20. Visiting Anime Temples. Analysing discourses of authorship and "anime author cult" through touristic spaces Chapter 21. Commemorating popular media heritage: from shrines of fandom to sites of memory Chapter 22. Creating Sacred Sites of Pop Culture in the Internet Age: creative fandoms and the mediatization of sites Chapter 23. Localizing Media Fandom: Fan-induced Tourism and the Museum Chapter 24. Scene Hunting for Anime Locations: Otaku Tourism in the Cool Japan Chapter 25. Star gazing: The nexus and disparity between the media, tourism and cultural heritage in Ireland Chapter 26. Media tourism, culinary cultures, and embodied fan experience: Visiting Hannibal’s Florence Part 4. Transmedia tourism Chapter 27. Official destination websites: A place’s showcase to the world Chapter 28. Contemporary Perspectives on Nautical Tourism: Media representations and User Generated Content (UGC) as meaning formation agents Chapter 29. The digital tourist bureau: Challenges and opportunities when transferring to a digital value creation Chapter 30. Digital tourist information: is that for everybody? Chapter 31. The role of stories in travel posts to social media Chapter 32. Social media, smartphones and their impact on the visitors’ tourist experience in cultural sites Chapter 33. I came, I saw, I selfied: Traveling in the age of the selfie Chapter 34. Creative tourism: The use of social media in resident and visitor co-placemaking Chapter 35. "Selfies" amongst "The Wildest of the Wild": Tourists’ filmic representations of visits to the Mursi on Youtube Chapter 36. Multiple portrayals of destination image: Interpreting and comparing Facebook content posted by DMOs and users Chapter 37. Redefine ‘being alone’: An exploration of solo travellers’ use of smartphone Part 5. Critical perspectives Chapter 38. Theme Parks - Where Media and Tourism Converge Chapter 39. Beaten tracks: tourism, anti-tourism and travel writing Chapter 40. Google trekker: rethinking ‘value’ in google’s ubiquitous mapping project Chapter 41. Lookout Towers as Assemblages Chapter 42. Cultural intimacy of fans/travellers and the politics of classification Chapter 43. What do Melania Trump tourism and Dracula tourism have in common? Media representation, tourism and destination marketing of the ≫Eastern European≪ as the "Other" Chapter 44. The nexus between cultural heritage, media and tourism Chapter 45. Preserving cultural heritage in a post-digital context: sound souvenirs for the online archive Conclusion On the convergence of media and tourism