Lecture 5

Question 1

What is film tourism?

Answer 1

• This is a relatively recently recognized form of tourism, but studies show the stimulating effect films can have on tourism development and demonstrate how films affect tourist demand and numbers;
Films stimulate desire to travel

Question 2

What do destinations get from being in films?

Answer 2

• Through exposure in films, destinations get unique marketing opportunities to provide film tourism experiences not available at other destinations.
-Film can be expensive tourism

Question 3

What does the complex of film tourism depend on?

Answer 3

The personal characteristics of the viewer, such as emotional responsiveness, education, and cultural background, which makes film tourism a highly personalized experience

Question 4

What is the tourism complex driven by?

Answer 4

…both the increase in international travel and growth of the entertainment industry, which makes it a developing worldwide phenomenon

Question 5

What is the official definition of film tourism?

Answer 5

Film tourism refers to experience of an attraction or destination that has been portrayed in some form of media representation, such as the cinema screen, television, or video

Question 6

What is the umbrella term for the tourism complex?

Answer 6

attempting to reduce potential misinterpretation, some researchers proposed to adopt an umbrella term “screen tourism,” which would cover all forms of this tourism type

Question 7

What are the 3 types of tourism?

Answer 7

Serendipitous film tourist
General film tourist
Specific film tourist

Question 8

What is serendipitous film tourism?

Answer 8

this tourist just happens to be visiting a destination portrayed in a film, and the presence of this tourist is not related to film or media portrayal, this tourist may or may not participate in film tourism activities);

Question 9

What Is general film tourism?

Answer 9

this tourist is not specifically drawn to a film location but participates in film tourism activities while visiting the destination

Question 10

What is specific film tourism?

Answer 10

this tourist actively seeks out places that they have been exposed to by the film

Question 11

How can films affect tourist demand?

Answer 11

Films create associations
with the destination which are then evaluated by the tourists and the evaluation establishes tourist demand
- Based on you evaluaiton of the movei you are watching you are going tod ecide if oyu want ot go to that place or not

Question 12

How is the destination image construction?

Answer 12

• visual association
• atmospheric association
• Emotional association

Question 13

How do films construct a visual association?

Answer 13

) Films construct a visual association with a portrayed destination, connecting it to specific visual images, which can include scenic sights, memorable places, or heritage sites…
• Although relatively basic, this association is critical for the film influence on tourist demands

Question 14

What happens when a film has no or limited destination exposure?

Answer 14

• Cant travel to these places eventhough its pretty, has limited destination exposure
• Instead sets or virtual environments are used;
• Although such films may cause strong responses from the viewer, their effect on tourist demand is severely decreased as they are not connected to a specific location.

Question 15

How do films construct an atmosphere association?

Answer 15

• This association creates connections between the destination and the intangible phenomena of culture, sensual characteristics and feeling;
Films can develop landscape into the “cultural property” by filling the filmed locations with symbolism and meaning

Question 16

What is the difference between atmosphere and visual association in films?

Answer 16

Films construct an atmosphere association, which is different from visual association as it is an “intangible association”…

Question 17

How do films construct an emotional association?

Answer 17

Films create an emotional association with a destination, connecting it with specific emotional experiences…

Strong associations between places and emotions increase the influence of the film on tourist demand

Question 18

What makes us have an emotional attraction to a film to create and emotional association?

Answer 18

• Emotional connections between the spectacle and the viewer may be induced by interrelation of plots and locations;

The origin of the emotional response is more complex than interrelation between location and plot, and is also affected by soundtracks, narrative, and special effects

Question 19

What is the definition when you mix with and overlap cinematic events and real landscapes?

Answer 19

Fictional effects and locations from films
mix with and overlap real locations,
which results in a process representing:
“the intersection of cinematic events and the real physical landscape, resulting in the new interpretation of the physical landscape, stimulated by the cinematic events.”

Question 20

To assess the credibility and authenticity of a film-created image… of a place viewers are going to do what?

Answer 20

compare it to the image of the destination they had before watching the film, which can have three possible outcomes

Question 21

What is a reinforcing image?

Answer 21

The film-created image is similar to the pre-watching image of the
viewer (credible)…
• In this situation, the film reinforces the existing image, possibly adding new information to it;
• This can apply to both visual qualities of the portrayed locations and to less tangible characteristics of the destination;
• Both positive and negative stereotypes may be reinforced by the film.

Question 22

What is a stimulating image?

Answer 22

The film-created image has tolerable differences (still credible) with the pre- watching image of the viewer…
• In this situation, the differences are not major, and the viewer sees that the information they have about the destination needs to be updated;
• This may lead to additional information search and possibly affect tourist demand.

Question 23

What is a false image?

Answer 23

The film-created image has high differences with the pre-watching image of
the viewer to the extent where the credibility of the film is rejected.…
• In this situation, particularly if the viewer has access to reliable information for comparison, the film is regarded as not credible;
• When making travel decisions, the viewer may not perceive the film as a source of information about the destination.

Question 24

What is literary tourism?

Answer 24

• Visitation of sites with literary associations, generally referred to as book travel, literary travel or literary tourism, is the earliest form of media-induced travel;
  
  • Because books were one of the original methods for mass media and could influence a lot of people to travel

Question 25

What makes people attracted to participate in literary tourism?

Answer 25

• Fictional narratives inspire readers to search for the origins of the stories by visiting places with connections to literature sources;
• In things we read, we. Create them in our mind
You will see similarities in this reading to parts of the first one. Consider these, and the differences too!…

Question 26

What is meant by literature?

Answer 26

creative writing, mainly fiction prose, but also poetry and drama;

Question 27

What is not included in literature?

Answer 27

• Explicit tourism guides are not included in literary tourism:(Travel writing, guide books, documentaries, news and biographies are generally excluded from this definition);

Question 28

Why is authenticity socially constructed?

Answer 28

• Some authors use the relatively new term emotional geography to emphasize the importance of feelings experienced by individuals towards a place
  
  • Authenticity constructed by us

Question 29

How is authenticity problematic in relation to literary places?

Answer 29

• Firstly, this is due to different interpretations of authors’ lives and fictional works, and;
• Everyone looks at these things differently, interplay between author and reader
• Secondly, this is due to the blending of fact and fiction in authors’ and readers’ imagination
“When readers-turned-travelers go ‘out there’ to look for spots featured in or
having inspired a story, they are bound to

Question 30

What do travellers have to be careful of?

Answer 30

Being be dissatisfied, this time by being confronted with a setting which might not have much in common with what they expected it to be.”
“In relation to factual authenticity, literary places can be experienced through the prism of the author’s life.

Question 31

What is another theory as to why people participate in literary tourism?

Answer 31

• Another way to look at a place is through the prism of the author themself
“Writers’ houses present a popular example of literary sites, allowing a possibility to
temporarily be present in the same space
where the author was often present.”
• People are inspired by authors amd wamt to look at thee place where they used to be . Expeirence their world to connect to the author or the world they created
• Hard for authenticity in literary tourism

Question 32

When people go looking for fictional authenticity what can they be looking for instead?

Answer 32

it can be argued that they wish to experience the atmosphere described in the texts,
find proof of existence of fictional characters and, in a way, find their ways into the narratives by visiting associated sites.”
• If you love a book, you want to to go the place to feel the atmosphere you read in a. book
• Want to find proof of fictionial characters