Tourism and Architectural Simulacra

<p>Since its beginnings tourism has inspired built environments that have suggested reinvented relationships with their original architectural inspirations. Copies reinterpretations and simulacra still constitute some of the most familiar and popular tourist attractions in the world. </p><p>Some reinterpret archetypes such as the ancient palace the Renaissance villa or the Mediterranean village. Others duplicate the cities in which we lived in the past or we still live today. And others realise perceptions of utopias such as Shangri-La Eden or Paradise. Replicas – duplitecture – and simulacra can have symbolic meaning for tourists as merely inspiring an atmosphere or as truly authentic and their relationship to original functions for worship accommodation leisure or shopping.</p><p>Tourism and Architectural Simulacra questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the architectural inspiration and its reproduction within the tourist bubble. The wide range of geographical areas eras and subjects in this book show that the expositions of simulacra and hyper reality by Baudrillard Deleuze and Eco are surpassed by our complex world. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach they offer original insights of the complex relationship between tourism and architecture. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.</i></p>