EXPERIENCING FILM TOURISM: Authenticity & Fellowship
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INTRODUCTION
An understandable preoccupation of tourism research has been the question of how best to characterise tourists’ experiences as they travel and encounter places, people, environments and cultures. This has proved to be no easy task. Even the, apparently, simplest of such experiences can, when under close scrutiny, expand into complexity and defy ready explanation. When faced with such complexity, one strategy is to focus on explaining particular, clearly specified, aspects of the simplest cases
Study Methods
The study that provides the underpinning data for this argument was part of a qualitative, four year research project into the motivations, expectations and the experiences of film tourists. It concentrated on the analysis of three nationwide tours each of 15 days length. Each tour covered a minimum of 30 locations between Queenstown in the South Island and Auckland in the North Island and took place over the summer periods of 2004/2005 and 2005/2006, and cost around US$ 3,000 per person
CONCLUSION
As noted in the introduction, the discussion had the objective of synthesizing previous approaches to authenticity, including ‘hyperreality’ and ‘simulacra’, within the context of a seemingly ‘perfect’ example of multilayered simulation and artifice, and to extend the conceptual framework referred to as ‘theoplacity’ to propose a suitable framework for the study of film tourism.
The intriguing questions that arise from this study orbit around the complex way in which film tourists appear to
Anne Buchmann is a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. (Email <[email protected]>). Her research interests include sustainable tourism, sustainable planning and development, mythical tourism, literary and film tourism, medieval studies and Tolkien.
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Anne Buchmann is a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. (Email <[email protected]>). Her research interests include sustainable tourism, sustainable planning and development, mythical tourism, literary and film tourism, medieval studies and Tolkien.
Kevin Moore and David Fisher are both Senior Lecturers at Lincoln University, New Zealand.