Film Tourism in Asia

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Edited by Sangkyun Kim and Stijn Reijnders

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Asia
Keywords: Asia, sociology
Publishing date: 2017
Publisher: Springer
Collection: Perspectives on Asian Tourism
Language: English

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Paperback • 284 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-9811059087

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Book Presentation:
This book focuses on film tourism: the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular film or TV series. It is based on a unique, Asian perspective, encompassing case studies from around the pan-Asian region, including China, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore. By focusing emphatically on film tourism in the non-West, this book offers a timely and crucial contribution to a more comprehensive understanding of the relation between film, culture and place, particularly in light of the increased volume of media production and consumption across Asia, and the consequent film tourism destinations that are currently popping up across the Asian continent.

About the authors:
Sangkyun Kim is Associate Professor of Tourism at Edith Cowan University. His research interests stem from five main themes: the close relationships between tourism and popular culture, with particular attention to tourism and (popular) media, film tourism, celebrity cultures, and fan pilgrimage; the relationship between food, identity and tourism; tourist behaviours including experience and emotion; research methods in tourism including; and tourism and community perspective (eg, perceptions, attitudes, empowerment, social capital).Stijn Reijnders is Professor of Cultural Heritage at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Currently he leads two large, international research projects funded by the Dutch Science Foundation and the European Research Council. He has published many research papers and two monographs entitled Holland op de Helling (2006) – recipient of the national NeSCoR dissertation award – and Places of the Imagination. Media, Tourism, Culture (2011). In addition, Reijnders has co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures (2014).

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