Mediating the Tourist Experience

Jo-Anne Lester, Caroline Scarles

Contents: Mediating the tourist experience: from brochures to virtual encounters, Caroline Scarles and Jo-Anne Lester; Media-related tourism phenomena: a review of key issues, Noëlle O’Connor and Sangkyun Kim; From the landscape to the White female body: representations of postcolonial luxury in contemporary tourism visual texts, Karen Wilkes; A necessary glamorisation? Resident perspectives on promotional literature and images on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Leon Hoffman and Robin Kearns; The effect of British natural history television programmes: animal representations and wildlife tourism, Susanna Curtin; Internet cultures and tourist expectations in the context of the public media discourse, Nicolai Scherle and Ralph Lessmeister; A comparative analysis of the projected and perceived images of Gloucester, Kathryn Bell; Individualising the tourist brochure: reconfiguring tourism experiences and transforming the classic image-maker, Constantia Anastasiadou and Nikos Migas; The mediatisation of culture: Japanese contents tourism and pop culture, Sue Beeton, Takayoshi Yamamura and Philip Seaton; Developing the e-mediated gaze, Peter Robinson; Souvenir or reconstruir? Editing experience and mediating memories of learning to dive, Stephanie Merchant; The mediation and fetishisation of the travel experience, Michael Salmond; Being a tourist or a performer? Tourists’ negotiation with mediated destination image in popular film, Maltika Siripis, Caroline Scarles and David Airey; The hollowed or hallowed ground of Orange County, California, Chris Lukinbeal and Ann Fletchall; Maps, mapping and materiality: navigating London, Catherine Palmer and Jo-Anne Lester; Mediating tourism: future directions?, Jo-Anne Lester and Caroline Scarles; Index.