ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|9 pages
Introduction
part I|70 pages
Critical and conceptual entrance points to the field
chapter 2|7 pages
Invited contribution – the Janus face of transmedia tourism
chapter 3|7 pages
Invited contribution – mind the gap
chapter 7|8 pages
Confronting the gaze, gripping the virtual
chapter 8|10 pages
Promoting cultural heritage in a post-digital context
chapter 9|10 pages
Physical digital labour and the commoditisation of cultural sites
part II|81 pages
Mediatized places and spaces
chapter 13|10 pages
Tourism and popcorns
chapter 15|10 pages
Doing as directed
chapter 17|9 pages
Liminality and the stranger
part III|92 pages
Circle of representation
chapter 19|11 pages
Representations of a Green Ireland
chapter 20|10 pages
Representation of the UAE as a touristic destination in Nat Geo Abu Dhabi
chapter 21|9 pages
Rewriting history, revitalizing heritage
chapter 24|10 pages
Film tourism and a changing cultural landscape for New Zealand
chapter 26|9 pages
Tourists’ filmic representations on YouTube
part IV|91 pages
Tourists as media producers
chapter 27|10 pages
Star gazing
chapter 29|10 pages
Media tourism, culinary cultures, and embodied fan experience
chapter 34|11 pages
The mediatization of Sherlock Holmes
chapter 35|9 pages
Cultural intimacy of fans/travellerS
part V|87 pages
Transmedia tourism
chapter 37|13 pages
Evaluating multiple portrayals of destination image
chapter 38|10 pages
The digital tourist bureau
chapter 43|10 pages
Smartphone as the invisible backpack
part |9 pages
Afterword