Film tourism - The original 3D movies

Mediating the Tourist Experience, 2016

Via Tourism Review, 2018

‘We could meet at the Saint Sophia mosque. – Like we were tourists,’ suggests James Bond to Russian agent Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love. Since 1962 and the release of Dr. No, tourism and tourists have played an important role in the James Bond saga in terms of affording viewers some escapism. Each film turns into a picture postcard as it takes the hero off to new destinations. The Bond films play on archetypes of destination (which they reinforce) and of tourism practices. These archetypal representations, from mass tourism to luxury tourism and from collective practices to individual practices, are all linked in the films to the image and sound (music and sound design) environments. In this article, we highlight how the Bond saga reflects the evolution of the core tourism practices and representations in Western societies from the 1960s to the present day.

Tourist Studies, 2004

Tourism can influence and change a community, and when it is unplanned, as often is the case with incidental tourism such as film-induced tourism, such changes are rarely considered. This paper looks at the changes that film-induced tourism (in the guise of a popular TV series, Sea Change) made to the seaside village of Barwon Heads in Australia. The attitudes of residents and regular visitors towards the influence of film-induced tourism and its relationship with 'reality' are discussed as well as the actual physical changes to the town.

Mobilities, 2006

This is a study of the phenomenon of ‘cinematic tourism’ through The Beach (2000), a cinematic adaptation of a novel that satirises the Western search for experiential authenticity through travel. It is argued that the film replicates this quest for ‘authenticity’; international responses to it point in the same direction. The study explores how The Beach was used by Internet tourist providers for the promotion of Thailand as a travel destination, claiming that the adaptation was complicit in the advertising of the country as an ‘Edenic destination’ for Westerners. Finally, the paper follows the organisation of protests when 20th Century Fox decided to ‘conform’ the area in which the movie was filmed (Phi Phi Leh of Krabi area) to images of tropical tourist paradises. KEY WORDS: Authenticity, cyberactivism, film, Thailand, travel, tourism Theorising

2014

2017

The main goal of this paper is to examine how Lyme Regis, a coastal town in the South of England is portrayed in the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman, directed by Karel Reizs (1981), based on the novel by the same name by John Fowles, and how this dramatic and breathtaking depiction contributes to the marketing of the image of the location as a tourist destination (Beeton, 2005). The reason underlying the selection of the film, unlike other films researched by studies on film-induced tourism (e.g. Carvalho, Vieira & Sousa, 2013, 2014; Sousa & Carvalho, 2016; Sousa & Marinho, 2014), owes to the fact that it is a fictional story set in Lyme Regis focusing on character and plot rather than on location. Yet, as will be shown, the film succeeds in giving viewers an appealing image of the town through a combination of language and symbols, both verbal and non-verbal (visual), as well as affect combined with cognitive triggering (Buckland, 2003 [2000]). It is thus a second goal of this p...

2019

Tales of Tourism - Global Changes and tourism discourse by Karina Smedpresents us with what has been the dominant discourse of tourism, i.e. a discourse which has had its roots in the West's economic and cultural hegemony and the problem of the formation of identity from the dichotomy "self" and the "others". The author discusses to which extent tourism discourse is global as the reception of it has been different depending on the context. Moreover, she reflects on the impact upon this global narrative that the new economic world order will have. The new and emergent economies lead to a flow of tourists in the opposite direction: from China, India and Russia to western countries and worldwide and this will probably change the concept of tourism and our idea of identities.

Annals of Tourism Research, 2005