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Mediating the Tourist Experience

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Mediating the Tourist Experience book

From Brochures to Virtual Encounters

Mediating the Tourist Experience

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Mediating the Tourist Experience book

From Brochures to Virtual Encounters
Edited ByJo-Anne Lester, Caroline Scarles
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 6 May 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594613
Pages 294
eBook ISBN 9781315594613
Subjects Geography, Humanities, Social Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality and Events
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Lester, J.-A., & Scarles, C. (Eds.). (2013). Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315594613

ABSTRACT

Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as films and television. Yet, with prolific advancements in technologies of media communication, such traditional formats have experienced a shift in the productive and consumptive practices through which they come into being. The possibilities of production and subsequent consumption are unequivocally changing the ways in which tourists imagine, understand and engage with destinations. This book therefore explores the role of tourism media and mediating practices in the development of non-linear processes of communication and understanding as both producers and consumers come together to negotiate the tourist experience. In varying ways it examines the emergent relationships and connections between media practices and tourism practices, everyday experiences and encounters of place. Collectively, the authors in this book address a range of media and technologies from brochures, television, video and film to mediated virtual spaces, such as e-brochures, Internet cultures, social networks, and Google Earth. In doing so, the book highlights the continued significance of media in tourism contexts; recognising both traditional and newer technologies, and the non-linear, continuous cycle of mediated representations and experiences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters

ByCaroline Scarles, Jo-Anne Lester

chapter 2|20 pages

Media-Related Tourism Phenomena: A Review of the Key Issues

ByNoëlle O’Connor, Sangkyun Kim

chapter 3|23 pages

From the Landscape to the White Female Body: Representations of Postcolonial Luxury in Contemporary Tourism Visual Texts

ByKaren Wilkes

chapter 4|18 pages

A Necessary Glamorisation? Resident Perspectives on Promotional Literature and Images on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand

ByLeon Hoffman, Robin Kearns

chapter 5|16 pages

The Effect of British Natural History Television Programmes: Animal Representations and Wildlife Tourism

BySusanna Curtin

chapter 6|13 pages

Internet Cultures and Tourist Expectations in the Context of the Public Media Discourse

ByNicolai Scherle, Ralph Lessmeister

chapter 7|18 pages

A Comparative Analysis of the Projected and Perceived Images of Gloucester

ByBell Kathryn

chapter 8|16 pages

Individualising the Tourist Brochure: Reconfiguring Tourism Experiences and Transforming the Classic Image-maker

ByConstantia Anastasiadou, Nikos Migas

chapter 9|16 pages

The Mediatisation of Culture: Japanese Contents Tourism and Pop Culture

BySue Beeton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton

chapter 10|16 pages

Developing the E-Mediated Gaze 1

ByPeter Robinson

chapter 11|17 pages

Souvenir or Reconstruir? Editing Experience and Mediating Memories of Learning to Dive

ByStephanie Merchant

chapter 12|20 pages

The Mediation and Fetishisation of the Travel Experience

ByMichael Salmond

chapter 13|14 pages

Being a Tourist or a Performer? Tourists’ Negotiation with Mediated Destination Image in Popular Film

ByMaltika Siripis, Caroline Scarles, David Airey

chapter 14|14 pages

The Hollowed or Hallowed Ground of Orange County, California

ByChris Lukinbeal, Ann Fletchall

chapter 15|18 pages

Maps, Mapping and Materiality: Navigating London

ByCatherine Palmer, Jo-Anne Lester

chapter 16|15 pages

Mediating Tourism: Future Directions?

ByJo-Anne Lester, Caroline Scarles
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