Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities

Tourism Fictions, Simulacra, and Virtualities explores the relationship between tourism and the built environment, questioning how fictions, simulacra, and virtualities express tourism in the environment and vice versa. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, covering various geographical areas, eras, and subjects such as post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa, and virtual reality in tourism. The book is of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural studies, geography, and heritage studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Tourism Fictions, Simulacra, and Virtualities presents a fresh perspective on the interplay between tourism and space, delving into the ways in which fictions, simulacra, and virtualities manifest and express tourism within the built environment, as well as the reciprocal influence. Since its inception, tourism has sparked the creation of themed built environments that establish a constitutive, yet sometimes contentious, connection with the "real" world and its architectural cues. This comprehensive volume challenges and reevaluates the diverse environments constructed or adapted for and by tourism, examining the interplay between the "real" and the "unreal" within the tourist bubble and the ways in which the real world inspires the creation of simulacra for tourism purposes. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores a wide range of geographical areas, eras, and subjects, including post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa, as well as numerous instances of virtual reality in tourism. This timely and innovative volume holds significant appeal to upper-level students, researchers, and academics in the fields of tourism, architecture, cultural studies, geography, and heritage studies.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032338057