Places of the imagination. Media, tourism and culture

摘要

In film tourism research some scholars believe the phenomenon is serendipitous or incidental (Beeton, 2005; Macionis & Sparks, 2009). Reijnders set out to question the reasons behind this phenomenon by raising questions related to media tourism which involves visiting locations connected with popular media narratives (p. 106). The questions are: why do some media products lead to media tourism while others do not? What characteristics of a story contribute to its attraction? Do different genres possibly lead to various sub-forms of media tourism? Does landscape create stories, or does landscape depend on the stories and resultant media tourism for meanings?