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.
Introduction
Part 1 Setting the Stage: Foundations of Popular Culture Tourism
1. What is Popular Culture?
Shirley A. Fedorak
2. Tourism and Popular Culture: Socio-cultural Considerations.
Rodanthi Tzanelli
3. Synontological Spaces.
Rhona Trauvitch
4. Apocalypto and the End of Days: Basking in the Mayas Shadow.
O. Hugo Benavides
5. The Commodification of Narco-violence through Popular Culture and Tourism in Medellin, Colombia.
Patrick Naef
Part 2 Broadening the Scope: Popular Culture Tourism Expressions
6. Popular Culture Tourism: Films and Tourist Demand.
Yuri Kork
7. Film Tourism in the Golden Age of Television.
Stefan Roesch
8. Imagining the Medieval in the Modern World: Film, Fantasy and Heritage.
Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost
9. Tuning in - Setting the Scene for Music Tourism.
Leonieke Bolderman and Stijn Reijnders
10. Fado as a Popular Culture Expression in the Context of a Tourist City.
Cláudia Henriques, Manuela Guerreiro, Júlio Mendes and Célia M. Q. Ramos
11. Transactional Bodies: Dance, Tourism, and Idea(l)s of Cubanness.
Ruxandra Ana
12. The Voyeur at Leisure: Flânerie in a Miniature city - The Urban Phenomena of Madurodam.
Maranke Wieringa
13. Technology Adoption and Popular Culture Sport Tourism.
Azizul Hassan
14. Hunters, Climbers, Flâneurs: How Video Games Create and Design Tourism.
Nicolle Lamerichs
15. The Peculiar Attraction of Royalty for Tourism and the Popular Culture Construction of 'Royal Tourism.
Nicola Palmer and Philip Long
16. Sun, Surf, Sex, and the Everyday: Subverting the Tourist Gaze with Gold Coast Narrative Fiction.
Kelly Palmer
17. Fandom and its Afterlife: Celebrity Cemetery Tourism.
Linda Levitt
Part 3 Performing Fan Cultures: Popular Culture Tourism Fandoms
18. Passing Through: Popular Media Tourism, Pilgrimage and Narratives of Being a Fan.
Lincoln Geraghty
19. A Thai Stars Appeal to Chinese Fans and its Impact on Thailand Popular Culture Tourism.
Lisa Yong Yeu Moy and Charuwan Phongpanichanan
20. On the Road'Again: Revisiting Pop Music Concert Tourism.
Carla Schriever
21. Music Fans as Tourists: The Mysterious Ways of Individual and Social Dimensions.
Maria Lexhagen
22. "There Were Only Friendly People and Love in the Air": Fans, Tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest.
Henrik Linden and Sara Linden
23. The (Promotional) Value of Public-Spiritedness: Irish Football Fans at Euro 2016.
Neil OBoyle
Part 4 Getting on the Map: Popular Culture Tourism and Place-making
24. #LiteraryMe: The Legacy of the Bloomsbury Group on Londons Literary Village.
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold
25. "I Went to India to Find Myself": Tracing World Cinemas Neoliberal Orientalisms.
Rukmini Pande
26. The Force Meets the Kittiwake: Shooting Star Wars on Skellig Michael.
Ruth Barton
27. The Narrative Capital of the Place: How the Millennium Narratives Generate Place-related Values and Attract Tourists to Sweden.
Joakim Lind and Bengt Kristensson Uggla
28. A 'Touristed Landscape: Speculations about 'Consuming History, Using a Case Study of an Australian Folk Hero.
Michael Fagence
29. Spain as the Scenery of Mass Tourism Phenomena - Between Elite Tourism and Popular Tourism: The Image of the Country through Cinema and Photography.
Maria-Josep Mulet Gutiérrez, Joan Carles Oliver Torelló and María Sebastián Sebastián
30. Playing at Home: Popular Culture Tourism and Place-making in Japan.
Paul Mason and Gregory L. Rohe
31. Travelling to Icons or Icons on Travel: Displacement and Representation of Places in Movies.
Burcu Kaya and Medet Yolal
32. The Indianization of Switzerland: Destination Transformations in the Wake of Bollywood Films.
Szilvia Gyimóthy
Part 5 Establishing a Common Ground: Popular Culture Tourism and Destination Management
33. Film Tourism Stakeholders and Impacts.
W. Glen Croy, Marieke Kersten, Audrey Mélinon and David Bowen
34. Film Tourism Collaborations: A critical Analysis of INTERREG Destination Development Projects.
Lena Eskilsson and Maria Månsson
35. Growing Competition for Screen Tourists Activates New Destination Marketing Tactics.
Valeriya Radomskaya
36. (G)A(i)ming at the Throne: Social Media and the Use of Visitor-Generated Content in Destination Marketing.
Tina Segota
37. The Influence of Culinary Movies as a Popular Culture Tourism Phenomenon in Shoot Destinations.
Sara Forgas-Serra, Joaquim Majó Fernández and Lluís Mundet i Cerdan
38. Visitor Experiences of Popular Culture Museums in Islands: A Management and Policy Approach.
Nikolaos Boukas and Myria Ioannou
39. Lifestyle Tourism: Combining Place Attachment and Involvement in a Destination Management Approach.
Michael J. Gross
40. Destination Development in the Wake of Popular Culture Tourism: Proposing a Comprehensive Analytic Framework.
Kristina N. Lindström
Conclusion: Building a Research Agenda for Popular Culture Tourism
