Mediating the Tourist Experience : From Brochures to Virtual Encounters / Lester, Jo-Anne; Scarles, Caroline

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: USA; Routledge; 2016Description: 294p; 21x15cmISBN:

9781138255609

Subject(s):

G154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism

DDC classification:

659.19'91-- dc23

LOC classification:

G155.A1L4346

Summary: Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as films and television. Yet, with prolific advancements in technologies of media communication, such traditional formats have experienced a shift in the productive and consumptive practices through which they come into being. The possibilities of production and subsequent consumption are unequivocally changing the ways in which tourists imagine, understand and engage with destinations. This book therefore explores the role of tourism media and mediating practices in the development of non-linear processes of communication and understanding as both producers and consumers come together to negotiate the tourist experience.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library	Geography. Anthropology. Recreation.	G154.9-155.8 199.327 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available

Traditionally, tourism media has referred to the image of destinations constructed through media texts such as brochures and postcards, with increasing attention towards other mediascapes such as films and television. Yet, with prolific advancements in technologies of media communication, such traditional formats have experienced a shift in the productive and consumptive practices through which they come into being. The possibilities of production and subsequent consumption are unequivocally changing the ways in which tourists imagine, understand and engage with destinations. This book therefore explores the role of tourism media and mediating practices in the development of non-linear processes of communication and understanding as both producers and consumers come together to negotiate the tourist experience.

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