Film Tourism Evolution Progress And Prospects

Tourism Management 33 (2012) 1007e1029

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Progress in Tourism Management

Film tourism e Evolution, progress and prospects
Joanne Connell
University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK

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Article history:
Received 14 December 2011
Accepted 20 February 2012

Film tourism has emerged as a major growth sector for research in tourism and it is widely recognised as a driver of tourism development for many destinations. To date, there has been a relatively substantial literature on the subject, little of which has sought to synthesise and engage with the wider social science paradigm of culture, film and media research. The aim of this Progress Review is to critically evaluate film tourism as a subject of cross-disciplinary academic study, highlighting the major research themes, issues and contributing conceptual frameworks, critiquing existing and developing perspectives and addressing critical gaps in knowledge. This review is particularly timely as the literature on film tourism has not been synthesised from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Accordingly, this paper seeks to provide a road map of the exponential growth in social science literature associated with the cognate areas that study, or contribute to, film tourism.
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Keywords:
Film tourism
Cultural geography
Film and media
Television
Tourism destinations
Movie tourism

1. Introduction
One of the defining characteristics of tourism research is the interdiciplinarity of its scope and subject matter. This feature is particularly prominent in the theme of tourism activity associated with film and television, or film tourism as it has become known, on which a growing body of knowledge has emerged over a relatively short period of time. The intellectual components of film tourism as an area of academic inquiry span a number of

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