Film Induced Tourism Research Papers (original) (raw)

In this chapter, I use a visual auto-ethnography methodology and a storytelling approach and data from social media platforms, field notes and journals to share my experiences, motivations, and travel behaviors as a female film-fanatic tourist. Goodall (2000) advocated for a more feminine communication style in academia and emphasized rapport-building through listening and observing (e.g., by engaging in personal reflection about meanings) rather than problem solving. Accordingly, I embarked on a media pilgrimage (Norris, 2013) to examine the intimacy of traveling as a solo female film-induced tourist and the intersectionality of contents tourism by mimicking imaginary hedonistic characters and exploring landscapes associated with the American television show Breaking Bad during the summer of 2016.

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- Popular Culture, Autoethnography, Film Induced Tourism, Visual Research Methods

|The Gilded Cage (2013), a French film written and directed by Ruben Alves, a Portuguese descendant residing in France, became one of the biggest box office hits of 2013 in France and Portu-gal. Lighthearted in tone, the film follows a family of Portuguese immigrants in Paris, focusing on the workaholic parents and their second-generation children, while displaying several stereotypes related to Portuguese identity and culture. Although partly based on preconceived ideas of what is understood as Portuguese identity, the film also seeks to show an image of modernity associated with aspects recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO, such as fado and the Douro landscape, both of which have been used at institutional level as a way to promote the country as a tourist destination. It is therefore not surprising that one of the consequences of the success that the film reached among the French public has been the increase in demand for the Douro region among French tourists after its exhibition. In this paper we intend to examine the ways in which the film portrays questions associated with Portuguese identity and culture, as well as the impact those representations have had on tourism.

- by Ana Pires
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- Film Induced Tourism

Film induced tourism or film tourism is a result of destination image formation and development through film industry with collaboration of other destination image stakeholders (policy makers, private and public investors, scholars and etc.). This postmodern tourism phenomenon links film driven emotions to the filming locations and at the same time is responsible for positive or negative destination image formation. In Lithuanian academic discourses this theory, as well as the impact of films towards local tourism, was not yet recognized. Therefore this article, according to the collected film tourism theoretical material, analyses Lithuanian potential for film induced tourism and how can it be turned into a destination promotion strategy. The conclusions show that there are real opportunities for Lithuania to use film industry as a tool of destination image formation, however it needs further analysis, a clear strategic plan, strong collaboration with Baltic region and the use of two recommendation models, which were presented in this paper. This research can be used for dynamic analysis as well as strategic planning in any specific institution related to filmmaking, tourism and regional image formation.

The relationship between film and tourism is complex and at times often subtle – not all movies directly encourage tourism, but they can influence tourist images as well as provide additional aspects to the tourist experience. This conceptual paper considers the role that film can play to encourage and enhance tourism in the Marche Region of Italy. Based on theoretical knowledge developed to date, a process to develop film tourism product is proposed. Such a practical application of academic knowledge will also provide data with which to further develop theoretical models in the field.

- by Sue Beeton
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- Film Induced Tourism, Film Tourism, Film-Induced Tourism

These are the presentations (slides + scripts) of our panel at the Association for Asian Studies Conference held in Chicago on 27 March 2015. There is an introduction by Philip Seaton, and four papers: "Rediscovery and Invention of Traditional Culture Inspired by Anime Content" (Takayoshi Yamamura), "Seeking Imaginary Settings" (Akiko Sugawa-Shimada), "Tourism Induced by NHK's Morning Dramas and Taiga Dramas since the 1960s" (Kyungjae Jang), and "Using a Historical Figure to Create a Local Tourism Brand" (Philip Seaton)

This article examines the role that locality, cultural specificity and authentic voice play within current television industry shifts and transnational developments. Focussing on Top of the Lake, I explore its thematic and aesthetic preoccupation with place, voice and nation by spotlighting issues of accent and vocal in/authenticity, detailing the controversy sparked when US star Elisabeth Moss was cast as New Zealand native, detective Robin Griffin. The adopted Antipodean accent furnished by Moss creates a highly ambivalent foregrounding and re-negotiation of the national within the particularly transnational space of post-broadcast ‘quality’ television. Presenting a ‘sonic spectacle’ (Holliday, Christopher. 2015. “The Accented American: The New Voices of British Stardom on US Television.” Journal of British Cinema and Television 12 (1): 63–82), Moss’ wobbly accent makes audiences doubly aware of the effort being expended to cue regional specificity and locale. In the following discussion, Moss’ vocal crafting in Top of the Lake is linked to the increasing importance given to authentic place and on-location shooting within post-broadcast television, as a means of fostering emotional pull and deep levels of viewer engagement. In Top of the Lake, links between place and authenticity are further interrogated via its self-aware invocation of touristic imagery and desires – made all the more nuanced due to Campion's presence as auteur and New Zealand's role as media-tourism mecca.

- by Tessa Dwyer
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- Media Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, New Zealand Studies
- by Sue Beeton
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- Marketing, Film Induced Tourism, Tourism, Movie induced tourism
- by alessio cavicchi
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- Film Induced Tourism, Film Tourism, Rural Areas
- by BASAK OZER
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- Marketing, Film Studies, Film Induced Tourism, City Branding
- by Sue Beeton
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- Film Induced Tourism, Movie induced tourism, Film-Induced Tourism
- by Oliver Mtapuri
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- Tourism Studies, Anthropology of Tourism, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management
- by farah polato
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- Film Studies, Film Induced Tourism, Film and Media Studies

Media fandom has moved beyond the screen, the page, and even the convention hall. It is now an integral part of the tourist industry, shaping how people imagine and experience distant cultures, times and places. Though the topic of film... more

- by Abby Waysdorf and +1
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- Fan Studies, Fan Cultures, Fandom, Imagination
- by Giulia Lavarone
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- Tourism Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Tourism, Film Induced Tourism

In recent years, the market for „special-interest” trav¬els and experiences has been rapidly expanding. Film tourism is a good opportunity to many tourist destina¬tions, as the contemporary tourist requires more than just a holiday. Serbia offers a range of scenery that can serve diverse location needs. The country’s unique architecture from Roman and Medieval period, Ottoman and Habsburg, Socialist structures to contemporary urban is offering variety of backgrounds for shooting.

- by Dejan Berić
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- Tourism Marketing, Travel & Tourism, Film Induced Tourism

How might Wolf Creek impact upon the Australian tourism industry? This paper is an attempt to address this question, but rather than moving into the shaky realm of extreme conjecture about the long-term economic benefits of the film, here I am more interested in examining the competing representations of tourism, tourists and national identity that are contained both within the film and in recent mainstream Australian tourism
campaigns. In other words, here I am more concerned with ideological and cultural impacts rather than economic ones. I look at the way(s) that the figure of the murderer Mick Taylor epitomizes and contrasts from the stereotypical ideal of the hypermasculine ‘Aussie bloke’ that has been successfully commodified in the recent marketing of the nation. I shall assess the dominant touristic iconography of Tourism Australia—focusing especially on the creation of Brand Australia and its influence on national representation from the 1980s—and the ways in which Wolf Creek fits into this brand image. As such an approach might suggest, there are no simple answers to the rhetorical question that I have asked:Wolf Creek is a polysemous text that supports a diverse range of socio-political readings of Australian attitudes to international tourism. This complexity at least indicates the difficulties of accounting for this text’s
real-life effect upon tourists, and more generally for other works of recent cinema lauded or condemned as sites for film-induced tourism.

- by Gemma Blackwood
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- Tourism Studies, Masculinity Studies, Horror Film, Travel & Tourism

The present article has the aim to understand the film induced tourism or film tourism phenomenon in application to place marketing and tourism marketing, and to comprise which are the effect of film tourism on territories and the main... more

Capace di coniugare la solidità dei tradizionali indici di ascolto all’intensità meno “quantificabile” ma non per questo meno determinante del coinvolgimento del fandom, pluripremiata e apprezzata dalla critica, Game of Thrones rappresenta, tra i recenti successi targati HBO e nel più ampio panorama seriale contemporaneo, un caso paradigmatico.
In un’ottica apertamente transdisciplinare, il volume propone un’introduzione al mondo (o ai mondi) della serie, che trova nel tema della complessità spaziale e narrativa il filo rosso lungo il quale si dispongono i saggi raccolti, che affrontano: le forme di rielaborazione finzionale di un ricco e profondo orizzonte storico (Bonaccorsi), l’impatto sull’industria audiovisiva locale e la sovrapposizione tra spazi reali e spazi del racconto nella promozione del territorio nordirlandese (Baschiera), le sofisticate strategie “architetturali” che gestiscono il coinvolgimento del pubblico (Casoli), il rilievo dei costumi nella costruzione e nello sviluppo dei personaggi (Martin), la circolazione e il ruolo degli storyboard sul Web (Stefani), le configurazioni urbanistiche che caratterizzano l’universo della saga (Poli) e il rilievo della mappa inaugurale dei titoli di testa per la comprensione di più ampi processi di world-building, orientamento e appropriazione “dal basso” tipici delle narrazioni seriali contemporanee (Boni e Re).

- by Valentina Re and +1
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- Television Studies, Film Industries, Series TV, Film Induced Tourism

Rituparno Ghosh was one of the rare film makers in India who recognized the power of silence both as a text and a narrative. Gosh made conscious efforts to communicate the music of silence in many of his films. These sincere attempts knitted the complex human desires, passions and emotions in his film. This chapter investigates the power of silence in the films of Rituparno Gosh. Here silence is not only a filmic apparatus, but also a major emotional element in his films, particularly in the portrayal of human relationship.

- by Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj
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- Film Theory and Practice, Film Studies, Film Theory, Film Music And Sound

This article examines the growth of Community-Based Tourism within the broader discipline of tourism. New topics in the field have emerged such as responsible tourism, pro-poor tourism, sports tourism and moral impacts of tourism. This phenomenon also reflects the multi-disciplinarity of tourism. In this article, using the Title, Abstract and Keywords (TAK) for instances in which the words (Community-based Tourism, Community Tourism and Community-Based Eco-Tourism) to subsume Community-Based Tourism (CBT), a search was made in various databases and found that CBT as a sub-specialty of tourism started to emerge in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The number of articles published specifically on CBT has been growing phenomenally. The major contribution of this article is that we now know the evolution of CBT and we also now know its trajectory of growth which has been upward. While the number of articles on CBT is growing, there is no journal dedicated solely to CBT.

- by Oliver Mtapuri
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- Tourism Studies, Anthropology of Tourism, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management
- by Sue Beeton
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- Film Induced Tourism, Film-Induced Tourism

This paper demonstrates the relation between the ability of television series as a promotional tool and the popularity of tourist destinations. Not only will the phenomenon of film-induced tourism will be explained, which is a widely growing aspect within the tourism industry, but also the profile of the film tourist will be outlined. A practical case study examines the impact of three immense popular television series on their filming locations, based on data collected from official tourist boards, companies who offer services or products related to a television series and local accommodation companies.

- by Jorden Hellemans
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- Marketing, Tourism Studies, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management
- by Arthur B Araújo
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- Tourism Studies, Tourism Marketing, Film Induced Tourism
- by Anna Irimiás
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- Cultural Tourism, Italian Cinema, Film Induced Tourism

One of the opportunities of Geography is to be explained and illustrated to students through various resources available to the teacher. One such tool is the vision of a movie or part of it. This paper is the outcome of a didactic proposal for students regarding the vision of a fi lm of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman to discuss mainly the meaning of the concept of “place”.

- by Leonardo Mercatanti
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- Cultural Geography, Film Induced Tourism

Context There have been numerus definitions of similar terms proposed linked with film tourism (Hudson, 2006), Screen tourism (Connell & Meyer, 2009), movie tourism (Evans, 1997, cited by Busby & Klug, 2001) as well as film induced... more

- by Anna Irimiás
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- Tourism Studies, Film Induced Tourism

This volume examines the development of alternative and creative forms of tourism in a range of different contexts around the world. Drawn from papers presented at the ATLAS Expert Meeting on Alternative and Creative Tourism held in Barcelona in 2013, the 10 chapters examine issues such as the development of 'in-between experiences', home exchange, community-based creative tourism, urban exploration, arts events, film-based tourism and gastronomic experiences.

- by greg richards
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- Tourism Studies, Cultural Tourism, Thailand, Creative Industries

In order to appeal tourists, cities need to get well known and in order to get well known, they need publicity. Considering the popularity of television and films, cities are dependent to the power of media in order to be existent. Although the main goal of the production firms is not contributing the tourism and economies of the cities, nowadays, their decisions became crucial for the revenues of them. The relationship between tourism and media is a crucial one considering the relationship of the audience with what they see as they relate themselves and change their consumption habits depending on what they watch also, they make their decisions about the places according to them. This article examines the relationship between tourism and media considering the relationship between the audience and the media content. It examines the relation between the attraction that emerges from the film tourism and the consumption behaviors of the audiences and tourists based on their identifications with the characters and films.

- by ZEYNEP PINAR UCAR
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- Tourism Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Media and Cultural Studies
- by carolyn abella
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- Film Induced Tourism
- by Sue Beeton
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- Film Studies, Film Induced Tourism, Film-Induced Tourism
- by h.mehmet yıldırım
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- History, Japanese Anime, Film Induced Tourism, Film Tourism

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss two specific audiovisual data analysis methods whilst applying
one of them to the consumption field on the tourism sector. Therefore, the theoretical review introduced hereafter
leads to a better understanding about this particular data analysis approach, which can broaden the research
method perspectives in management studies. In operationalizing the research, Denzin’s model (2004) was adopted as a means to assess a certain TV show that was chosen as a case study. Accordingly, the likelihood of its content influencing consumer’s image creation process toward a tourism destination was analyzed. This is what the
literature refers to as ‘film induced tourism’. The results showed that videos can influence the opinion one has of
a tourism destination (the object of this study) and they probably also influence opinions about any chosen
organization, service or product. Because of that, it is important to have knowledge to analyze and think over the
images that are made available to the public, oftentimes without any control or acknowledgment by those
interested.

- by Beatriz Gondim and +2
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- Film Induced Tourism, Audiovisual methods, CONSUMPTION RESEARCH

Considers how film can induce image, both individually and collectively. In particular, the psychological drivers of film are explored and how these may impact on tourism visitation. The impacts of film and cinema are explored as is the relationship between tourists’ motivation and purchase behaviour.
It reviews the limited literature on the subject and seeks for commonalities and resonances between film and tourism. Uses a focus group to develop a perceptual map with which to better understand the phenomenon. Conducts a questionnaire to research attitudes towards film and propensity to film-induced behaviour. The work suggests that there are commonalities between film and tourism and that film can evoke powerful and long-lasting images with the viewer, thus creating marketing opportunities for destination marketing organizations.
With greater understanding of the nature and power of filmic image, it is hoped that tourism destination marketing organizations may develop more effective strategies for attracting visitors to destinations.
Research in this topic is very limited and, as far as the author is aware, there is nothing which adopts an in-depth approach on the nature and application of film-induced tourism.

Film-induced tourism, intended as travelling to places where films and TV series have been shot or set, has been extensively studied in the last two decades in several disciplinary fields. For example, the term ‘media pilgrimage’ emerged in media sociology to highlight the sacred dimension these practices may assume, while fan studies have focused on the narrative of affection built upon specific places. Calling forth the relationship between film and landscape, these phenomena have been also explored in the light of film semiotics and media geography. In the past decade, the representation of landscape and the construction of the sense of place in animation benefited from increased scholarly attention; however, the links between tourism and animation still appear under-explored. Japanese animation, because of its prominent use of real locations as the basis for the building of its worlds and the tendency of its fanbases to take action (even in the form of animation-oriented tourism), is an especially promising field, in this respect. In the last fifteen years, a debate on ‘content(s) tourism’ has involved the Japanese government as well as academic scholarship, referring to a wide variety of contents, from novels to films and TV series, anime, manga, and games. The article presents a case study: a discussion of the experience of anime tourists who visited the Italian locations featured in the films by the world-famous animator and director Miyazaki Hayao, especially in Castle in the Sky (1986) and Porco Rosso (1992). The experiences of anime tourists were collected from images and texts shared through the social network Twitter.

- by Marco Bellano and +1
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- Animation, Manga and Anime Studies, Film Induced Tourism, Animation Studies

This book assembles contributions from an international body of scholars interested in the multi and interdisciplinary study of literary tourism and film-induced tourism. The book contributes to the literature on these two research fields by being a platform for critical discussion, examining concepts, trends and methods, and documenting the advances in research on the intersections of literature, film and the act of travelling. Encompassing a wide range of topics from literary museums, literary tours, motivations of literary tourists and film-induced tourists, women travellers, film tourism destinations, literary places to digital literary tourism, this book covers literature and film as drivers of sustainable tourism development, cultural identity, preservation of heritage, community relations and development, literary and cultural literacy, and destination marketing.

- by Rita Baleiro
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- Cultural Heritage, Cultural Tourism, Cultural Identity, Cultural Literacy

This study examines multiple local stakeholders’ perceptions of film tourism impacts to shed light on the complexities of film tourism planning and development, using a longitudinal exploratory research approach. The Japanese TV series Mare (2015) was chosen as the case study. Qualitative interviews with various local stakeholders were conducted over a 21-month-long period of a film tourism development project in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The study found that this film tourism project was initiated with high expectations. However, due to several incidents, such as the controversial rebuilding of a local highway road for promotional purposes, the audience’s mixed reception of the series’ storyline, and a sexual harassment scandal involving one of the main actors, the film tourism development did not progress as planned. The study also revealed that consultation which included a diverse range of local stakeholders and long-term planning embedded into a larger regional development st...

- by Sangkyun (Sean) Kim
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- Business, Japanese Studies, Tourism Studies, Celebrity Culture
- by Elisabeth Scherer
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- Japanese Studies, Multiculturalism, Tourism Studies, Media Studies

Foreign film production is a vital source of revenue for Thailand, a job creator and a stimulator of tourism. This article seeks to outline and assess the developments and challenges of Thailand as a foreign film production destination from 2016 to 2018. To this end, it analyzes statistics of annual revenue, production types and the nationalities connected to foreign film projects and
discusses the Thailand Film Office’s marketing strategy and activities. Within the context of film-induced tourism, the article also contextualizes the temporary closure of Maya Bay. The results show that (1) the TFO’s promotional strategy is effective as it includes the dissemination of marketing materials and the organization of an annual film festival, competitions and other events that foster international cooperation; (2) Japanese, Indian and continental European productions are the most numerous; (3) the intensity of foreign filmmaking activity in Thailand fluctuates year by year but has stabilized at a high level during the 2016-2018-period; and (4) the high 2018-revenue figures can be attributed in part to the new tax incentives.

- by Alexander J . Klemm
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- Tourism Studies, Thai Studies, Film Studies, Creative Industries