Popular culture (pop culture) events have the potential to promote tourist destinations and to generate tourism income. Travel motivation is a critical consideration for reaping these benefits since it serves as a stepping stone for event attendance and it initiates a desire to act. The purpose of...

Popular culture tourism encompasses a range of expressive practices that attract fans traveling to destinations associated with their fandom pursuit. However, scholarship on this multifaceted phenomenon is today over-fragmented and obscured by separate disciplinary agendas and priorities. We argue...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of popular culture in a tourism context, highlighting how it can impact the future of tourism. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing upon existing research, the popularity of popular culture is discussed, and future developments are...

This special issue consists of 15 papers on various aspects of popular culture tourism. Popular culture tourism encompasses destinations featured in popular culture expressions (e.g., film, television, literature, music, fashion, sports) and the people who travel to these places because of their...

Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This...

Introduction: Social media is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. The impact of social networks on young people is significant. It is...

Purpose: In recent years, there has been a "heritagisation" of pop culture, including music, whereby cultural institutions, such as galleries and museums in primarily Western countries, have run exhibitions based on pop culture to successfully market to a new audience of visitors. The purpose of...

This paper clarifies the nature of Korean fans' sacred meaning-making in popular culture pilgrimages. Travel to locations which have significance in pop culture has become a trend among fans. Interestingly, many fans do performances, sometimes ritual-like, at the destinations to express the value...

This paper considers the calypso music of Antigua and Barbuda as an archival repository of the masses. Drawing on archival theory, the paper reflects on the cultural processing of calypso, from composition to competition, and through its ascent to cultural popularity.