Within the last decade film-induced tourism has gained increasing attention from academics and the industry alike. While most research has focused on the tourism-inducing effects of film productions, not much has been written about the film location tourists themselves. This book examines the on-site experiences of these tourists by drawing from various disciplines, including geography, sociology and psychology. The author accompanied tourists to film locations from The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and The Sound of Music and conducted extensive on-site research with them. The results show that only by understanding the needs and wants of film location tourists can film be utilised as a successful and sustainable instrument within strategic destination marketing portfolios.
Tabella dei contenuti
Part 1: Film Tourism – An Overview
1 Introduction
2 Destination Marketing through Film
3 Film Locations as Touristic Places
4 Profiling Film Location Tourists
Part 2: The Experiences of Film Location Tourists
5 The Spiritual Location Encounter
6 The Physical Location Encounter
7 The Social Location Encounter
Part 3: Conclusion
8 Characteristics of the Film Location Encounter
9 Implications and Future Directions
Circa l’autore
Stefan Roesch has worked in the tourism industry for over fifteen years and is currently Deputy Managing Director for Cen Touris, a market research and tourism consulting institute based at the University of Passau, Germany. He is also a freelance consultant in film tourism, an area he has been researching for ten years. As part of his doctoral thesis Stefan undertook fieldwork research on several case studies, including The Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, Star Wars in Tunisia and The Sound of Music in Austria. He regularly speaks at international conferences and advises the industry on how to utilise film for marketing strategies. In 2013, Stefan founded the film production company Punakaiki Productions.
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