Mediating the tourist experience : from brochures to virtual encounters / edited by Jo-Anne Lester and Caroline Scarles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lester, Jo-Anne.

Contributor:

Lester, Jo-Anne.

Scarles, Caroline.

Series:

Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism

Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and business.

Visual communication.

Advertising--Tourism.

Advertising.

Social media.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book 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 experi

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters; 2 Media-Related Tourism Phenomena: A Review of the Key Issues; 3 From the Landscape to the White Female Body: Representations of Postcolonial Luxury in Contemporary Tourism Visual Texts; 4 A Necessary Glamorisation? Resident Perspectives on Promotional Literature and Images on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand; 5 The Effect of British Natural History Television Programmes: Animal Representations and Wildlife Tourism

6 Internet Cultures and Tourist Expectations in the Context of the Public Media Discourse 7 A Comparative Analysis of the Projected and Perceived Images of Gloucester; 8 Individualising the Tourist Brochure: Reconfiguring Tourism Experiences and Transforming the Classic Image-maker; 9 The Mediatisation of Culture: Japanese Contents Tourism and Pop Culture; 10 Developing the E-Mediated Gaze; 11 Souvenir or Reconstruir? Editing Experience and Mediating Memories of Learning to Dive; 12 The Mediation and Fetishisation of the Travel Experience

13 Being a Tourist or a Performer? Tourists' Negotiation with Mediated Destination Image in Popular Film14 The Hollowed or Hallowed Ground of Orange County, California; 15 Maps, Mapping and Materiality: Navigating London; 16 Mediating Tourism: Future Directions?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-09850-1

1-315-59461-7

1-317-09849-8

1-4094-5107-0

9781315594613

OCLC:

862122782