Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism

<p>This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates questions and controversies of tourism in the wake of popular culture phenomena and explores the relationships between popular culture globalization tourism and mobility. In addition it offers a cross-disciplinary cutting edge review of the character of popular cultural production and consumption trends analyzing their consequences for tourism spatial strategies and destination competitiveness. </p><p>The scope of the volume encompasses various expressions of popular culture such as cinema TV shows music literature sports and heritage. Featuring a mix of theoretical and empirical chapters the handbook problematizes and conceptualizes the ties and clusters of popular cultural actors thereby positioning tourism within the wider context of creative economies cultural planning and multimodal technologies. </p><p>Written by an international team of academics with expertise in a range of disciplines this timely book will be of interest to researchers from a variety of subjects including tourism events geography cultural studies fandom research political economy business media studies and technology.</p>