Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities: write, stage and play the tourist game -- Part 1 Fictions -- 2 White lies: reclaiming Rio de Janeiro's denied slave past in the touristic redevelopment of the old port -- 3 Palacy-in-progress: re-imagining East Prussian country estates in post-socialist tourism landscapes of Northeast Poland -- 4 Tourist bubbles in the Alps: sliding from the sublime into picturesque worlds -- 5 Iconic architecture or theme park? Seville's cinematographic reinvention for tourism purposes (1914-1930) -- Part 2 Simulacra -- 6 (Re)Presenting paradise: the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas -- 7 Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised past -- 8 From the Lascaux cave to Lascaux IV: repetition and transformation of a simulacrum -- 9 An oriental town patterned upon movies concepts: China City, a tourist simulacrum in Los Angeles (1938-1948) -- Part 3 Virtualities -- 10 The city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas -- 11 To be a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. On architecture, computer games and tourist experience in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone -- 12 Virtualities in the new tourism landscape: the case of the Anne Frank House virtual tour and of the visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War context -- 13 Iconic architecture in tourism: (how) does it work? -- Index.