This article examines Paradise: Love (2012, Dir. Ulrich Seidl), a compelling filmic account of the problematics of race, ethnicity, gender, and nation that organize contemporary accounts of female sex tourism. The storyline and visual imagery of the film positions Kenya - and a Eurocentric,...

A Study in Mugla Province, Turkey. The study was conducted in Mugla province of Turkey, which have been famous thanks to various movies, TV series and documentaries. The movie which was directed by Russell Crowe "Water Diviner" filmed in Mugla province as an international production. The aim of...

The current study sought to identify the role of nostalgia in film tourism, specifically in relation to the development of preferred film tourism products and activities for potential Korean film tourists visiting the shooting locations of Hong Kong films made from the 1970s to the late 1990s. The...

This study adopts appropriation theory to examine the role of film in tourist experiences. Specifically, it analyzes how tourists draw on and manipulate movies and TV programs to construct immersive experiences. Depth interviews reveal how consumers engage in nesting, investigating, and stamping...

This study attempts to develop a drama consumption model in the context of film tourism and empirically test it using the mainland Chinese audience of Korean television dramas (K-dramas). Celebrity and dramatized characters strongly influenced the emotional involvement and referential reflection of ...

This special issue deals with visual media and its role in tourism, be it fantasy creation, motivation/image formation, or behavioural conditioning. The nine articles in this special issue cover different content (film tourism, religious tourism, culinary tourism, and authenticity), and channels (...

In the future, tourism and entertainment could be displayed as spectacles of horror, where consumers are offered and opportunity to revisit the tragedies of the past. Current displays of death where the past is exhibited and consumed as fun, scary and as entertainment productions are widespread....

The importance of place attachment in film tourism has been recognized by scholars and practitioners. However, despite its predominance in the destination management industry, several unaddressed issues remain in film tourism. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the relationships...

The present paper is a result of an Education and Cinema Extension Project, developed at UNESPAR (Paraná State University) - Apucarana Campus (FECEA), in partnership with Tourism Applied Studies Center (CEETUR) of the same university. In the attended region there aren't any records of similar...