1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism provides a comprehensive overview of the research into the convergence of media and tourism and specifically investigates the concept of mediatized tourism.
This Companion offers a holistic look at the relationship between media and tourism by drawing from a global range of contributions by scholars from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. The book is divided into five parts, covering diverse aspects of mediatization of tourism including place and space, representation, cultural production, and transmedia. It features a comprehensive theoretical introduction and an afterword by leading scholars in this emerging field, delving into the ways in which different forms of media content and consumption converge, and the consequential effects on tourism and tourists.
The collection is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of tourism studies, cultural studies, and media and communication, as well as those with a particular interest in mediatization, convergence culture, and contemporary culture.
Contents list
1. Introduction: In the juncture of media convergence and tourism – towards a research agenda
Maria Månsson, Cecilia Cassinger, Lena Eskilsson & Annæ Buchmann
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
André Jansson
3. Invited contribution - Mind the gap: Interdisciplinary approaches to media and tourism
Anne Marit Waade
4. Theme Parks – Where media and tourism converge
Sabrina Mittermeier
5. Cinematic tourism in a time of media convergence: A spatial framework
Giulia Lavarone
6. What do Melania Trump tourism and Dracula tourism have in common? ‘Othering’ in the Western media discourse
Maja Turnšek, Andreja Trdina & Barbara Pavlakovič
7. Confronting the gaze, gripping the virtual: A cultural materialist perspective on cinema-tourism studies
Sofia Sampaio
8. Promoting cultural heritage in a post-digital context: A speculative future for the online archive
Adriaan Odendaal & Karla Zavala
9. Physical digital labour and the commoditisation of cultural sites: Mediatising tourism through social mapping
Kathleen M. Kuehn & Michael S. Daubs
Part II - Mediatized places and spaces
10. Football tourism and the sounds of televised matches
Nicolai J. Graakjær & Rasmus Grøn
11. Pop idols, mediatized places, and identity-oriented performances of fans as domestic tourists in Japan
Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar
12. Do you feel the warmth? The online destination image of Southeast Asia
Maria Criselda G. Badilla
13. Tourism and popcorns: The role of feature films in branding and marketing destination New Zealand
Natàlia Ferrer-Roca
14. Official destination websites: A place’s showcase to the world
José Fernández-Cavia
15. Doing as directed: Analysing representations of travel in contemporary Bollywood cinema
Apoorva Nanjangud
16. Representation of food and tourism in legacy media: rediscovering the roots
Francesc Fusté-Forné & Pere Masip
17. Liminality and the stranger: Understanding tourists and their landscapes through True Detective
Hazel Andrews & Les Roberts
Part III - Circle of representation
18. Co-creation constrained: Exploring gazes of the destination on Instagram
Cecilia Cassinger & Åsa Thelander
19. Representations of a Green Ireland: a case study of global franchises Star Wars and Game of Thrones
Pat Brereton
20. Representation of the UAE as a touristic destination in Nat Geo Abu Dhabi: An analytical study
Alyaa Anter
21. Rewriting history, revitalizing heritage: Heritage-based contents tourism in the Asia-Pacific region
Philip Seaton & Sue Beeton
22. Challenges of film-induced tourism in Croatia: From Winnetou to Game of Thrones
Božo Skoko & Katarina Miličević
23. Beaten tracks: belatedness and anti-tourism in guidebooks
Tim Hannigan
24. Film tourism and a changing cultural landscape for New Zealand: The influence of Pavlova westerns
Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing
25. Tourists’ place-making performances through music
Jörgen Eksell & Maria Månsson
26. Tourists’ filmic representations on YouTube: A case study analysis of two mediatised visits to the Mursi in Ethiopia
Tom Sintobin & Anke Tonnaer
Part IV - Tourists as media producers
27. Star gazing: The nexus and disparity between the media, tourism, and cultural heritage in Ireland
Aine Mc Adam
28. Commemorating popular media heritage: From shrines of fandom to sites of memory
Christian Hviid Mortensen
29. Media tourism, culinary cultures, and embodied fan experience: Visiting Hannibal’s Florence
Rebecca Williams
30. Scene hunting for anime locations: Otaku tourism in the Cool Japan
Antonio Loriguillo-López
31. Behind-the-(museum)scenes: Fan-curated exhibitions as tourist attractions
Philipp Dominik Keidl
32. Creative fandoms and the mediatized sacred sites
Kyungjae Jang & Takayoshi Yamamura
33. I came, I saw, I selfied: Travelling in the age of Instagram
Ana Oliveira Garner
34. The mediatization of Sherlock Holmes: Autoethnographic observations on literary and film tourism
Annæ Buchmann
35. Cultural intimacy of fans/travellers: popular culture and the politics of classification
Andreja Trdina, Barbara Pavlakovič & Maja Turnšek
Part V - Transmedia tourism
36. The role of stories in travel posts to social media
John Pearce & Gianna Moscardo
37. Evaluating multiple portrayals of destination image: Assessing, categorising, and authenticating visuals on Facebook posted by national tourism organisations
Nicholas Wise
38. The digital tourist bureau: Challenges and opportunities when transferring to a digital value creation
Sara Leckner & Carl Magnus Olsson
39. Tourist information search in the age of mediatization
Lena Eskilsson, Maria Månsson, Jan Henrik Nilsson & Malin Zillinger
40. Towards sustainable nautical tourism – exploring transmedia storytelling
Fani Galatsopoulou & Clio Kenterelidou
41. The nexus between tourism heritage attraction, media and fashion
Kim Williams
42. Online and on tour: the smartphone effect in transmedia contexts
Susan Carson & Mark Pennings
43. Smartphone as the invisible backpack: The impact of smartphone on Chinese backpackers’ mobility pattern
Jia Xie
Afterword
44. Afterword - Participatory placemakers: socio-spatial orderings along the nexus of tourism and media
Szilvia Gyimóthy
Biography
Maria Månsson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University, Sweden. She has a PhD in Service Studies from Lund University that focused on Mediatized tourism. Her research deals with media’s influence on tourism and tourists' performances at destinations, place marketing, and place branding with a particular focus on popular culture.
Annæ Buchmann has a PhD in Social Science and is a Lecturer in Events, Tourism, and Leisure at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Anna has published widely in film/media tourism and also horse tourism considering multispecies perspectives. Her interdisciplinary research looks at long-term strategies for creating sustainable communities and organisations in urban and regional destinations.
Cecilia Cassinger obtained her PhD in Marketing, 2010. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University, Sweden. Her research concerns the consequences and transformative potential of place brand communication and how communication is strategically used to mitigate conflicts among users in places, such as cities, regions, and nations.
Lena Eskilsson is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography working at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies at Lund University, Sweden. She has a specialisation in place development and marketing with finalised research projects focusing on the bridging of the film and tourism sectors, as well as the influence of media on tourism and tourist behaviour at destinations.