1st Edition

Tourism and the Creative Industries Theories, policies and practice

Edited By Philip Long, Nigel D. Morpeth Copyright 2016
208 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on the theoretical, policy and practice linkages and disjunctures between tourism and the creative industries. There are clear and strong intersections between the sectors, for example in the development and application of new and emerging media in tourism; festivals and cultural events showcasing the creative identity of place; tours and place identities associated with film,... Read more

1. Introduction

(Philip E. Long and Nigel D Morpeth)

2. Film, Mobility and Urban Space

(Les Roberts)

3. Creativity, the visual arts and tourism

(Nigel D Morpeth and Philip E. Long)

4. Tourism and Advertising as Creative Industry Sector

(Mark Passera)

5. Tourism and the Creative Industries: Design and Designer Fashion

(Corinna Budnarowska and Ruth Marciniak)

6. Urban Planning, Architecture And The Making of Creative Spaces

(Ian Strange)

7. Challenges and opportunities for South Korean Tourism and Creative Industries

(Sangkyun Kim & Chanwoo Nam)

8. Genius loci reloaded: The creative renaissance of Nantes and Saint Etienne

(Charles Ambrosino, Vincent Guillon, Dominique Sagot Duvauroux)

9. Creating a Cosmopolitan Tourism Destination: The visual arts and music in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

(James Whiting and Kevin Hannam)

10. The virtual tourist: the simulated environments and impossible geographies of videogames.

(Michael Salmond and Jacqueline Salmond)

11. Travel and Transformation in the Fantasy Genre

(Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing)

12. Conclusions

(Philip E. Long and Nigel D. Morpeth)

Biography

Philip Long is a Principal Academic at Bournemouth University. His research interests include: relationships between tourism and popular culture; festivals; international film and television; diaspora communities; and social exclusion. He is a board member of the International Festivals and Events Association (Europe).

Nigel D. Morpeth is an academic and artist based at Leeds Beckett University. He has previously worked for UK local authorities in community-based leisure, festival and events organisation, and has worked in the field of Tourism Education over the last 26 years. His teaching and research is focused on diverse interdisciplinary academic approaches to Tourism, Cultural Studies, the Creative Industries, and Sport and Leisure. In a recent book, Planning for Tourism: Towards a Sustainable Future, he has written about the linkages between community initiatives and sustainability. He has delivered over 25 international conference papers including a keynote address on Tourism and the Arts at Ostfalia University in Germany and has delivered a presentation on public art at the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London.