The Influence Of Tourism In Film And 3. What Is Film Tourism?

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3.2 What is Film Tourism? In this paper the researchers focus on the influence that movies and TV series have on tourism in general and the consumer and the destination in specific. This particular field is generally known as ‘film-induced tourism’ (Beeton, 2005). For this reason its definition will be stated below, while also describing ‘hallmark events’. As Hudson and Ritchie (2006) state ‘film-induced tourism’ is “a tourism activity induced by the vision of a moving image, including film, television and pre-recorded products, such as video, DVD and Blue-Ray and it has now been extended to digital media” (as cited in Connell, 2012, p. 1009). Riley and Van Doren (1992), make the definition of ‘film-induced tourism’ more complete, involving …show more content…

Novels and books play a similar role to the one of movies and TV series in influencing tourists. In the following subchapter the authors of this research will give a brief introduction to the ‘literary tourism’ as a phenomenon induced by a different kind of mass media. Another reason is to introduce the reader to the similarities and differences between movies and novels and to understand the reason why the TV series taken into consideration are strictly related to the literary …show more content…

The main similarity among them is the emotional bond created between the source (storyline of the book or the movie) and the TV viewer/reader. Contrary, the principal difference between those two terms can be seen in the inevitable application of the imagination in the literature, which is not presented in movies. In fact Cullingford (1984) stated that: “There are crucial differences between the act of reading and response to the moving image in that one demands form a control, or perceptual concentration, and the other can be watched without any application of the mind” (as cited in Connell, 2012, p.1011). Although movies as medium of promoting destinations are apparently outclassing the ‘literary tourism’, it can be identified that sometimes ‘film tourism’ and ‘literary tourism’ develop parallel to each other. An example for this development is ‘Scandinavia crime film’ and its ‘Nordic Noir’ genre. The three TV series analyzed in this paper are categorized as Scandinavian crime, because of their connection to Danish film production and the matching of the characteristics of the Nordic Noir

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