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. Editor(s): Lester, Jo-Anne. Series Editor(s): Mosedale, Dr. Jan; Scarles, Dr. Caroline. Series: Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism. Num Pages: 294 pages, Includes 32 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; KNSG; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 684. . 2013. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters (Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1409451062
ISBN 13: 9781409451068
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as films and television. Yet, with prolific advancements in technologies of media communication, such traditional formats have experienced a shift in the productive and consumptive practices through which they come into being. The possibilities of production and subsequent consumption are unequivocally changing the ways in which tourists imagine, understand and engage with destinations. This book therefore explores the role of tourism media and mediating practices in the development of non-linear processes of communication and understanding as both producers and consumers come together to negotiate the tourist experience. In varying ways it 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.

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