Midterm 2

Question 1

What is a serendipitous film tourist?

Answer 1

A type of film tourist who just happens to visit a destination portrayed in a film and may not even be aware of the film.

Example: I live in Hoi An and I am doing grocery shopping at the night market, but I have no idea what Raya and the Last Dragon is.

Question 2

What is a general film tourist?

Answer 2

A type of film tourist who is aware of the film and will visit film tourist destinations, but the film is not the main point of the trip.

Example: I like Ghostbusters and if I’m in New York, I’ll go to the Ghostbusters experience because why not.

Question 3

What is specific film tourism?

Answer 3

A type of film tourist who actively seeks out places in the film to tour.

Example: Wes and Groundhog Day movie.

Question 4

What is visual association in destination image construction?

Answer 4

Association to a place regarding its physical, basic features.

Example: The CN Tower, Eiffel Tower.

Question 5

What is atmospheric association in destination image construction?

Answer 5

Association to a place regarding its intangible, background features.

Example: Slumdog Millionaire and the colours.

Question 6

What is emotional association in destination image construction?

Answer 6

A strong association between the place and one’s emotions.

Example: Mamma Mia as great music that draws people in.

Question 7

What is a reinforcing image?

Answer 7

What you think after a trip when the places look like how they are depicted in the film.

Example: Paris looks like it does in Emily in Paris.

Question 8

What is a stimulating image?

Answer 8

What you think after a trip when there is a tolerable difference from the place to the film.

Question 9

What is a false image?

Answer 9

What you think after a trip when the place is nothing like the movie.

Question 10

What is screen tourism?

Answer 10

An umbrella term for all visual media induced tourism.

Question 11

What is film tourism?

Answer 11

The experience of attraction or destination portrayed in media representation.

Example: Movie.

Question 12

What is mediated gaze?

Answer 12

Media developing tourism through engaging destination with actions, perceptions, images, and texts.

Question 13

What is literature in the context of tourism?

Answer 13

Creative writing.

Question 14

What is the romantic era in literary induced tourism?

Answer 14

Narratives inspiring readers to seek ‘real’ behind text by travelling to places of literary work.

Question 15

What is intrapersonal authenticity?

Answer 15

Existential authenticity connected to bodily feelings and sense of identity.

Question 16

What is interpersonal authenticity?

Answer 16

Existential authenticity with respect to social relationships.

Question 17

What is emotional geography?

Answer 17

The importance of feeling experiences by a place.

Question 18

What is cross-media?

Answer 18

Narrative presented through a variety of media.

Example: TV, video games, read.

Question 19

What is transmedia?

Answer 19

Narrative developing and continuing through fan-made media products.

Example: Fanfiction, fan-edits.

Question 20

What is factual authenticity?

Answer 20

The exact location where a film was shot.

Question 21

What is an interface in tourism?

Answer 21

A material object you can hold to make you feel like you’re there.

Example: Lightsaber, Harry Potter wand.

Question 22

What are story worlds?

Answer 22

Worlds that connect a story to a place.

Question 23

What is physical immersion?

Answer 23

Physical details surrounding a place that make you feel like you are in the place.

Example: The olden architecture in Harry Potter World.

Question 24

What is conceptual immersion?

Answer 24

Immersion relying on the user’s imagination.

Example: Book describing a place.

Question 25

What is multisensory immersion?

Answer 25

A combination of physical and conceptual immersion.

Question 26

What is suspension of disbelief?

Answer 26

Willingness to accept the world of imagination as real. ## Footnote Example: Santa is not real until you go to Santaland and it all feels real.

Question 27

What is nostalgia in tourism?

Answer 27

To become and remain a child.

Question 28

What is immersive theatre?

Answer 28

Theater that makes the audience interact and interact with the audience. ## Footnote Example: They touch you; you help the actors do things etc.

Question 29

What is a dark ride?

Answer 29

Rides in the dark.

Question 30

What is a thematic journey in dark rides?

Answer 30

The ride tells you a story through its design. ## Footnote Example: It looks scary to tell you a story of a ghost-haunted mansion.

Question 31

What is 360 degree imagery in dark rides?

Answer 31

No walls in dark rides; have things move to your left so you turn, making you look in all directions.

Question 32

What is triggered sound in dark rides?

Answer 32

Sound devices used in the rides. ## Footnote Example: Sound of falling rocks to stimulate your falling.

Question 33

What is perspective and illusion in dark rides?

Answer 33

Create a distorted vision to make the user perceive something else. ## Footnote Example: If you play with light, you can make yourself look big.

Question 34

What is light and touch in dark rides?

Answer 34

Lighting control used in the rides. ## Footnote Example: Flashing of light to stimulate lightning.

Question 35

What is haptic feedback?

Answer 35

Physical sensations experienced during rides. ## Footnote Example: Rumbling of the seat to simulate a rocky road.

Question 36

What is geographical accessibility in themed restaurants?

Answer 36

Restaurant is close to a large population and is easily accessible via transportation.

Question 37

What is cultural accessibility in themed restaurants?

Answer 37

Cultural theme of the restaurant is easy to understand.

Question 38

What characterizes British/Westernized theme parks?

Answer 38

Targeted towards a younger audience, centered around fun, rides, and such.

Question 39

What characterizes Japanese theme parks?

Answer 39

Separate cultural areas including museums and displays, with special foods exclusive to that area.

Question 40

What is themeland?

Answer 40

An area conveying a single idea or theme within a theme park.

Question 41

What is mise-en-scene?

Answer 41

Staging an action for the cameras.

Question 42

What is popular culture?

Answer 42

A system of shared meaning, values, attitudes, and symbolic forms that are expressed and embodied.

Question 43

What is marker in tourism?

Answer 43

A piece of information or representation that constitutes sight as a sight. ## Footnote Example: Sign telling you that this is the Arctic Circle.

Question 44

What is armchair tourism?

Answer 44

Exploring the world from the comfort of your own home. ## Footnote Example: Reading a book.

Question 45

What is hedonistic appeal in immersive theatre?

Answer 45

A pleasurable experience.

Question 46

What is narcissistic appeal in immersive theatre?

Answer 46

An experience that is all about you; attention turned inwards.

Question 47

What is the experience industry?

Answer 47

An industry that capitalizes on memorable or stimulating experiences. ## Footnote Example: Theme parks, strip clubs etc.

Question 48

What are parodic restaurants?

Answer 48

Restaurants that use fake artifacts to create a theme; they are gimmicky.

Question 49

What are themed restaurants?

Answer 49

Restaurants that have a dominant theme expressed.

Question 50

What is phase 1 in climate change and tourism?

Answer 50

Assess destination vulnerability and resilience to climate change. ## Footnote Example: What are we doing to do in 10 years?

Question 51

What is phase 2 in climate change and tourism?

Answer 51

Increase destination resilience, resistance, and readiness.

Question 52

What does the victim, winner, loser theme refer to?

Answer 52

There are victims, winners, and losers to climate change affecting tourism.