Mediating the Tourist Experience

This book examines the emergent relationships and connections between media practices and tourism practices everyday experiences and encounters of place. Collectively the authors in this book address a range of media and technologies from brochures television video and film to mediated virtual spaces such as e-brochures Internet cultures social networks and Google Earth. In doing so the book highlights the continued significance of media in tourism contexts; recognising both traditional and newer technologies and the non-linear continuous cycle of mediated representations and experiences.