The Routledge handbook of popular culture and tourism- Front Cover -- The Routledge handbook of popular culture and tourism -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: beneath the trivial façade of popular culture -- Rationale and structure of the Handbook -- A final word -- References -- PART I: Setting the stage: foundations of popular culture tourism -- Chapter 1: What is popular culture? -- Defining popular culture -- Why and how we study popular culture -- Characteristics and roles of popular culture -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Tourism and popular culture: socio-cultural considerations -- Introduction -- Modes of investigation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Synontological spaces -- Setting the scene: synontological spaces -- Theoretical underpinnings: narratology, cognitive studies, geocriticism -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Apocalypto and the end of days: basking in the Maya's shadow -- Setting the scene: entering and re-entering the Maya region -- Disciplinary underpinnings: assessing the politics of popular culture in the Maya lands -- Implication for popular culture tourism: colonial strolls (in Merida), climbing pyramids (at Chichen Itza), and seeing the Mayas (in Apocalypto) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The commodification of narco-violence through popular culture and tourism in Medellin, Colombia -- Setting the scene: Medellin, from the most violent to the most innovative city -- Theoretical underpinnings: violence, tourism and popular culture -- Implications for popular culture tourism: the commodification of violence -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Broadening the scope: popular culture tourism expressions.

Chapter 6: Popular culture tourism: films and tourist demand -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings: film tourism -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Film tourism in the golden age of television -- Setting the scene: film tourism -- Disciplinary underpinnings: location placement through fictional film productions -- Methodology: case study inquiry - hotspots of television tourism -- Downton Abbey and Highclere Castle -- Northern Ireland is Game of Thrones territory -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Imagining the medieval in the modern world: film, fantasy and heritage -- Setting the scene -- Disciplinary underpinnings: media representations and meanings -- The modern tourist geography -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- Chapter 9: Tuning in: setting the scene for music tourism -- Setting the scene -- Disciplinary and theoretical underpinnings: understanding the connections between music and place -- Implications for popular culture tourism: exposing a double bias -- References -- Chapter 10: Fado as a popular culture expression in the context of a tourist city -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings -- The tourist experience of the city -- Methodology -- Case study - Lisbon City: fado as popular culture expression -- Results -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Transactional bodies: dance, tourism, and idea(l)s of Cubanness -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings: Cuban dance in light of international tourism -- The dance business and the maximization of bodily capital -- Implications for popular culture tourism: 'I cannot tell my students I will teach them to dance like Cubans, because that would be a lie' -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 12: The voyeur at leisure: flânerie in a miniature city - the urban phenomena of Madurodam -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Walking in the miniature city -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13: Technology adoption and popular culture sport tourism -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Sport as popular culture tourism and diffusion of innovation -- Methodology -- Findings and analysis -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- Chapter 14: Hunters, climbers, flâneurs: how video games create and design tourism -- Setting the scene: tourism as a playful experience -- Theoretical underpinnings: studies on media tourism -- Methodology -- Sightseeing inside and outside of games -- Re-experiencing the city through a tourist gaze -- Virtual tourism -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- Chapter 15: The peculiar attraction of royalty for tourism and the popular culture construction of 'royal tourism' -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Popular culture, royal tourism and destination image -- The popular celebrity culture of royal tourism -- The popular ceremonial culture of royal tourism -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: Sun, surf, sex, and the everyday: subverting the tourist gaze with Gold Coast narrative fiction -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings: gazing over the Gold Coast -- Between paradise and paradise lost -- Literary tourism and the everyday -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17: Fandom and its afterlife: celebrity cemetery tourism -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings: cemetery tourism as dark tourism -- From Père Lachaise to Hollywood -- The death positive movement and cemetery tourism.

Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- PART III: Performing fan cultures: popular culture tourism fandoms -- Chapter 18: Passing through: popular media tourism, pilgrimage, and narratives of being a fan -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings of fan geographies: from typographyto topography -- Narratives of becoming: memory and place -- The flâneur and fan tourism -- Implications for popular culture tourism: fans passing through, as, and from -- References -- Chapter 19: A Thai star's appeal to Chinese fans and its impact on Thailand popular culture tourism -- Setting the scene: Thai wave -- Disciplinary underpinnings: popular culture tourism -- Thai popular culture tourism -- Celebrity involvement -- Num Sornram Theappitak -- Methodology -- Findings -- Implications for cultural tourism in Thailand -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 20: On the road-again: revisiting pop music concert tourism -- Setting the scene: defining ad hoc tourism in pop music fan cultures -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Methodology: redefining flexibility in popular music fandom tourism and the Purple Army (Prince Fans) -- A new dimension of travel: post-artist fandom travel -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Note -- References -- Chapter 21: Music fans as tourists: the mysterious ways of individual and social dimensions -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Methodology -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- Chapter 22: "There were only friendly people and love in the air": fans, tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings and empirical insights: hosting the Eurovision Song Contest - and being a fan of it -- LGBT travel - and Eurovision fans as tourists -- Implications for popular culture tourism: so, who should win - the song or the destination?.

Note -- References -- Chapter 23: The (promotional) value of public-spiritedness: Irish football fans at Euro 2016 -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings: gazing, marketing and popular culture -- The Irish at Euro 2016 -- The (promotional) value of public-spiritedness -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- PART IV: Getting on the map: popular culture tourism and place-making -- Chapter 24: #Literaryme: the legacy of the Bloomsbury Group on London's literary village -- Setting the scene -- Disciplinary and theoretical underpinnings -- Methodology -- Findings -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25: "I went to India to find myself": tracing world cinema's neoliberal orientalisms -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Methodology and discussion -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- Chapter 26: The Force meets the Kittiwake: shooting Star Wars on Skellig Michael -- Setting the scene -- Theoretical and disciplinary underpinnings -- The boatman's revenge -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- References -- Chapter 27: The narrative capital of the place: how the Millennium narratives generate place-related values and attract tourists to Sweden -- Setting the scene: Millennium popular culture as tourist industry -- Theoretical underpinnings: the narrative capital of the place -- Short methodological remarks -- Tourists in the foot prints of Millennium -- Millennium as multi-dimensional place branding -- Altered contexts -- Implications for popular culture tourism -- Epilogue: the narrative capital relocated to a new place? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 28: A 'touristed landscape': speculations about 'consuming history', using a case study of an Australian folk hero -- Setting the scene: engaging with history and heritage.

Disciplinary underpinnings: towards a 'touristed landscape' framework.