Media, Place and Tourism: A World of Imagination

Accessible and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume highlights the connections between media, tourism and place, bringing together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in critical issues relating to media tourism worldwide.

This book explores new avenues, adopting a global and transnational perspective and placing emphasis on the exploration, analysis and comparison of cases from around the world. Encompassing chapters from a plethora of experts, the volume discusses processes and relationships of power involved in the development and experience of media tourism. This book seeks to broaden the horizons of both the reader and existing academic research into media tourism by including research into, among other topics, Bollywood and Nollywood films, Brazilian telenovelas and South Korean K-pop culture. Illustrated with tables and figures throughout, the volume presents insights from a variety of strands of cutting-edge and empirically rich research, which are collated, compared and contrasted to demonstrate the connections between media, tourism and place around the world.

International in scope, this book is an ideal companion for academics and scholars within a wide array of disciplines, such as media studies, tourism studies, fan studies, cultural geography and sociology, as well as those with an interest in media tourism more specifically.

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Stijn Reijnders is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Vice Dean of Research at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Furthermore, he is co-founder of the Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism.

Emiel Martens is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersections between film, tourism and empire. Furthermore, he is co-founder of both the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication and the Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism.

Deborah Castro is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen. Her research interests lie in the fields of television and audience studies. She received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to study the local community’s reactions to film tourism in Spain.

Débora Póvoa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on power dynamics of media production and tourism. She is member of the Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism (FIHETO) and film review editor of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Apoorva Nanjangud is a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud Institute of Culture and History, Radboud University Nijmegen. She is a cultural sociologist, with an expertise at the intersection of the media, tourism, and the creative sectors, particularly in the context of India.

Rosa Schiavone is PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her PhD project examines the production of place in film tourism in Scotland and explores the interconnections between popular culture, place and local and national heritage.