Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new understanding of tourisms interaction with space, questioning the ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism in the built environment and vice versa.
Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the real world and its architectural references. This volume questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the real and the unreal within the tourist bubble and the ways in which the real world inspires simulacra for tourism use. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book touches on a wide range of geographical areas, eras and subjects such as post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiros Little Africa, as well as multiple instances of virtual reality in tourism.
This timely and innovative volume will be of great interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural studies, geography and heritage studies.
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new understanding of tourisms interaction with space, questioning the ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism in the built environment and vice versa.
List of figures. List of contributors.1 Tourism fictions, simulacra and
virtualities: write, stage and play the tourist game. Part 1: Fictions 2
White lies: reclaiming Rio de Janeiros denied slave past in the touristic
redevelopment of the old port. 3 Palacy-in-progress: re-imagining East
Prussian country estates in post-socialist tourism landscapes of Northeast
Poland. 4 Tourist bubbles in the Alps: sliding from the sublime into
picturesque worlds. 5 Iconic architecture or theme park? Sevilles
cinematographic reinvention for tourism purposes (19141930). Part 2:
Simulacra 6 (Re)Presenting paradise: the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas. 7
Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised
past. 8 From the Lascaux cave to Lascaux IV: repetition and transformation of
a simulacrum. 9 An oriental town patterned upon movies concepts: China City,
a tourist simulacrum in Los Angeles (19381948). Part 3: Virtualities 10 The
city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las
Vegas. 11 To be a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. On architecture, computer games and tourist
experience in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. 12 Virtualities in the new
tourism landscape: the case of the Anne Frank House virtual tour and of the
visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War context. 13 Iconic
architecture in tourism: (how) does it work?
Index
Maria Gravari-Barbas is a professor of Geography and the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair Tourism, Culture, Development at Paris 1 Sorbonne University.
Nelson Graburn is a professor of Anthropology at Berkeley University.
Jean-Franēois Staszak is a professor of Geography at the University of Geneva.
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