Travel, Tourism and the Moving Image (Paperback)

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place that can affect our decision-making when we travel. It also analyses how our touristic experiences can inform our film-viewing. A range of genres and themes are studied including the significance of the western, espionage, road and gangster movies, along with further study of film studio theme parks and an introduction to the relationship between gaming and travel. This book will appeal to tourism scholars as well as film studies professionals, and is written in an accessible manner for a general audience.

Sue Beeton is a travel and tourism researcher and writer and Foundation Chair of the College of Eminent Professors at William Angliss Institute in Australia. For over a quarter of a century, she has conducted tourism-based research into community development, film-induced tourism and pop culture and nature-based tourism. As well as producing numerous academic papers, book chapters and reports, Prof Beeton has published a range of research-based books, including Ecotourism: a practical guide for rural communities, Community Development Through Tourism and Tourism and the Moving Image, as well as two editions of the acclaimed monograph, Film-Induced Tourism.