ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Setting the stage
part II|134 pages
Broadening the scope
chapter 12|14 pages
The voyeur at leisure
chapter 16|12 pages
Sun, surf, sex, and the everyday
part III|71 pages
Performing fan cultures
chapter 22|14 pages
“There were only friendly people and love in the air”
part IV|115 pages
Getting on the map
chapter 27|14 pages
The narrative capital of the place
chapter 28|15 pages
A ‘touristed landscape’
chapter 29|13 pages
Spain as the scenery of mass tourism phenomena – between elite tourism and popular tourism
chapter 31|11 pages
Traveling to icons or icons on travel
chapter 32|12 pages
The Indianization of Switzerland
part V|107 pages
Establishing a common ground