Description
Book SynopsisThis volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It critically examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its close connection with fan studies and placemaking. The chapters illustrate how different destinations capitalise on expressive cultural practices to attract fan tourists, the processes involved in their tourismification, and the outcomes for both visitors and local communities. The book establishes a common ground for the comprehensive and critical study of popular culture tourism development and fandom. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations. It is a useful resource for researchers in tourism management, fandom, pop culture and media studies, as well as for those working in the tourism industry.
Trade ReviewThe entanglements between popular culture and tourism are increasingly shaping places and leisure mobility patterns. The editors of this book have curated a compelling collection of emergent spatial imaginaries and rekindled placemaking practices to showcase tourism transformations in the Anthropocene. Solidly grounded in interdisciplinary domains, this volume will be of interest to both tourism and place marketers, as well as consumer culture scholars at large. * Szilvia Gyimóthy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *
This arresting book examines the expressive practices of popular culture that craft tourism realities. The editors’ compelling perspective guides critical exploration of what popular-culture fans desire and how communities respond to intended and unintended tourism changes. The expert authors critically interrogate contested tourism world-making emerging from various popular culture expressions, including musicians, manga, film, and Indigenous responses to colonial invasion. A must-read for anyone researching popular culture–tourism relationships.
* Glen Croy, Monash University, Australia *
This engaging book offers a wide-ranging approach to the diverse and rich interrelations between popular culture and tourism, both online and onsite, varying from battlefield tourism, scholarly-virtual pilgrimage and fan travel vlogs to baseball tourism. I particularly liked how the authors address the important role and perspective of fans in all these cultural practices.
* Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands *
Table of ContentsContributors
Prologue
Chapter 1. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and Insights
Part 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism Placemaking
Chapter 2. Warwick Frost and Jennifer Frost: Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 3. Timo Thelen and Sangkyun Kim: The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites – Unintended and Intended
Part 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of Fans
Chapter 4. Michael Fagence: 'Walking Battlefield Sites': An Experience of Secular Pilgrimage
Chapter 5. Tatiana Chekalina, Maria Lexhagen, Christopher Hoffman and Gustav Grönskog: Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination Setting
Chapter 6. O. Hugo Benavides: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred Intersect
Part 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture Destinations
Chapter 7. Lincoln Geraghty: Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism
Chapter 8. Kelly Palmer and Glen Thomas: @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey Tourist
Chapter 9. Wen (Stella) Tian, Christine Lundberg and Alkmini Gkritzali: Millennials' Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking Investigation
Part 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the World
Chapter 10. Nicholas Wise: (Re)Celebrating Baseball’s Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristification in the Cornfields of Iowa
Chapter 11. Rodanthi Tzanelli: Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary Futures
Epilogue
Chapter 12. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and Problematics
Index
