This book examines science fiction’s theoretical and ontological backgrounds and how science fiction applies to the future of tourism. It recreates and invents the future of tourism in a creative and disruptive manner, reconceptualising tourism through alternative and quantum leap thinking that go beyond the normative or accepted view of tourism. The chapters, focusing on areas such as disruption, sustainability and technology, draw readers into the unknown future of tourism – a future that may be disruptive, dystopian or utopian. The book brings a new theoretical paradigm to the study of tourism in a post COVID-19 world and can be used to explore, frame and even form the future of tourism. It will capture the imagination and inspire readers to address tourism’s challenges of tomorrow.
Cuprins
Figures and Table
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ian Yeoman, Una Mc Mahon-Beattie and Marianna Sigala: Science Fiction: A Theoretical Lens and Methodological Approach for Re-Imagining Tourism Futures
Part 1: Ontological Approaches
Chapter 2. Ian Yeoman and Una Mc Mahon-Beattie: Science Fiction and the Future of Tourism
Chapter 3. Felicity Picken: The Future, the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Chapter 4. Peter Robinson: Prosuming Existential Authenticity in Dystopian Spaces
Chapter 5. Annette Toivonen: Space Tourism – Science Fiction Becoming a Reality
Part 2: Science Fiction
Chapter 6. Leon Gurevitch: A Life Without Limits: Design, Technology and Tourism Futures in Westworld
Chapter 7. Ina Reichenberger: Harry Potter and the Future of Tourism
Chapter 8. Giovanna Bertella: Wildlife Tourism in 2150: Uplifted Animals, Virtual and Augmented Reality and Everything In-between
Chapter 9. Peter Bolan: Tears in the Rain: Tourism in the World of Blade Runner and Total Recall
Chapter 10. Mairead Mc Entee, Ruairi Mc Entee, Una Mc Mahon-Beattie and Ian Yeoman: Destination of the Dead: The Future for Tourism?
Part 3: Disruption
Chapter 11. Stephan Bingemer: Holidays with Inspector Maigret: Mixed Reality Adventures as Value Drivers in Future Tourism
Chapter 12. Daniel Guttentag: Digital Destinations and Avatar Tourists: A Futuristic Look at Virtual Reality Tourism and Its Real-World Impacts
Chapter 13. Cecilia de Bernardi: The ‘Safety Bubble’ and the Future of Enclave Tourism
Part 4: Dystopia
Chapter 14. Stuart Reid and Richard Ek: The Coming of the Fugue and the Blind Tourist?
Chapter 15. Jane Lovell and Sam Hitchmough: Technological Frontiers: From the Wild West Myth to the Dystopia of the Westworld’s Post-human Theme Park
Chapter 16. Daniel Wright: The Future of Music Concerts and Tourism in Dystopian Times
Chapter 17. Magdalena Banaszkiewicz and Jonathan Skinner: Exclusion Tourism: Sci-Fi Stalkers and Subjunctive Plays in Apocalyptic Destinations from Chernobyl to Plymouth, Montserrat
Chapter 18. Martin Gren and Emily Höckert: Hotel Anthropocene
Part 5: Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 19. Ian Yeoman, Una Mc Mahon-Beattie and Marianna Sigala: Developing a Theoretical Framework of Science Fiction and the Future of Tourism: A Cognitive Mapping Perspective
Index
Despre autor
Marianna Sigala is Professor of Tourism, University of South Australia. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management.