Travel, Tourism and the Moving Image

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place and can affect our decision-making when we travel.

About the author

Sue Beeton has worked in the tourism field for 25 years; she is President of the TTRA APac chapter, Honorary Associate Professor of Tourism at La Trobe University, Australia and Visiting Professor at University of Macerata, Italy. She has published widely on the relationship between tourism and film, including Film-Induced Tourism (2005).

Summary

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place and can affect our decision-making when we travel.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Beeton
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2015
• EAN: 9781845415280
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-528-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change; Tourism and Cultural Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches