Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations

The entanglements between popular culture and tourism are increasingly shaping places and leisure mobility patterns. The editors of this book have curated a compelling collection of emergent spatial imaginaries and rekindled placemaking practices to showcase tourism transformations in the Anthropocene. Solidly grounded in interdisciplinary domains, this volume will be of interest to both tourism and place marketers, as well as consumer culture scholars at large. * Szilvia Gyimthy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * This arresting book examines the expressive practices of popular culture that craft tourism realities. The editors compelling perspective guides critical exploration of what popular-culture fans desire and how communities respond to intended and unintended tourism changes. The expert authors critically interrogate contested tourism world-making emerging from various popular culture expressions, including musicians, manga, film, and Indigenous responses to colonial invasion. A must-read for anyone researching popular culturetourism relationships. * Glen Croy, Monash University, Australia * This engaging book offers a wide-ranging approach to the diverse and rich interrelations between popular culture and tourism, both online and onsite, varying from battlefield tourism, scholarly-virtual pilgrimage and fan travel vlogs to baseball tourism. I particularly liked how the authors address the important role and perspective of fans in all these cultural practices. * Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands *

Vassilios Ziakas is Associate Professor in Sport and Event Management, Honorary Faculty, University of Liverpool, UK. He is editor-in-chief of the book series Event Management Theory and Methods (Goodfellow). Christine Lundberg is Professor of Tourism Management at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is co-editor (with Vassilios Ziakas) of The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (2018). Maria Lexhagen is Professor of Tourism Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. Her research is focused on marketing and digitalisation in tourism and cuts across both business management and consumer behaviour.

Contributors Prologue Chapter 1. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and Insights Part 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism Placemaking Chapter 2. Warwick Frost and Jennifer Frost: Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, Australia Chapter 3. Timo Thelen and Sangkyun Kim: The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites Unintended and Intended Part 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of Fans Chapter 4. Michael Fagence: 'Walking Battlefield Sites': An Experience of Secular Pilgrimage Chapter 5. Tatiana Chekalina, Maria Lexhagen, Christopher Hoffman and Gustav Grnskog: Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination Setting Chapter 6. O. Hugo Benavides: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred Intersect Part 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture Destinations Chapter 7. Lincoln Geraghty: Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism Chapter 8. Kelly Palmer and Glen Thomas: @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey Tourist Chapter 9. Wen (Stella) Tian, Christine Lundberg and Alkmini Gkritzali: Millennials' Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking Investigation Part 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the World Chapter 10. Nicholas Wise: (Re)Celebrating Baseballs Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristification in the Cornfields of Iowa Chapter 11. Rodanthi Tzanelli: Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary Futures Epilogue Chapter 12. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and Problematics Index