Mediating the tourist experience: from brochures to virtual encounters
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Main Author: Lester, Jo-Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate Pub. Limited [2013]
Series:Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
This book examines the emergent relationships and connections between media practices and tourism practices, everyday experiences and encounters of place. Collectively, the authors in this book address a range of media and technologies from brochures, television, video and film to mediated virtual spaces, such as e-brochures, Internet cultures, social networks, and Google Earth. In doing so, the book highlights the continued significance of media in tourism contexts; recognising both traditional and newer technologies, and the non-linear, continuous cycle of mediated representations and experi
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9781409451075
1409451070
9781472401847
1472401840
9781409451068
1409451062

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