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Title Mediating the tourist experience : from brochures to virtual encounters / edited by Jo-Anne Lester and Caroline Scarles
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Limited, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism
Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism.
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 Discourse7 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? Touristsâ#x80;#x99; 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
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 experiences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects
Advertising -- Tourism.
Visual communication.
Mass media and business.
Social media.
Social Media
social media.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Advertising & Promotion.
Advertising -- Tourism
Mass media and business
Social media
Tourism -- Social aspects
Visual communication
Form Electronic book
Author Lester, Jo-Anne, editor.
Scarles, Caroline, editor.
ISBN 9781409451075
1409451070
9781472401847
1472401840
1409451062
9781409451068