Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations / / ed. by Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg, Maria Lexhagen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Channel View Publications eBook-Package 2024
• MitwirkendeR: Benavides, O. Hugo,; Chekalina, Tatiana,; Fagence, Michael,; Frost, Jennifer,; Frost, Warwick,; Geraghty, Lincoln,; Gkritzali, Alkmini,; Grönskog, Gustav,; Hoffman, Christopher,; Kim, Sangkyun,; Lexhagen, Maria,; Lundberg, Christine,; Palmer, Kelly,; Thelen, Timo,; Thomas, Glen,; Tian, Wen (Stella),; Tzanelli, Rodanthi,; Wise, Nicholas,; Ziakas, Vassilios,
• HerausgeberIn: Lexhagen, Maria,; Lundberg, Christine,; Ziakas, Vassilios,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Prologue --; 1 Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and Insights --; Part 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism Placemaking --; 2 Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, Australia --; 3 The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites – Unintended and Intended --; Part 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of Fans --; 4 ‘Walking Battlefield Sites’: An Experience of Secular Pilgrimage --; 5 Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination Setting --; 6 Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred Intersect --; Part 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture Destinations --; 7 Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism --; 8 @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey Tourist --; 9 Millennials’ Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking Investigation --; Part 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the World --; 10 (Re)Celebrating Baseball’s Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristifi cation in the Cornfi elds of Iowa --; 11 Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary Futures --; Epilogue --; 12 Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and Problematics --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845418953; 9783111428437; 9783111332383
• DOI: 10.21832/9781845418953
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg, Maria Lexhagen.

This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations.