Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations

Vassilios Ziakas is Associate Professor in Sport and Event Management, Honorary Faculty, University of Liverpool, UK. He is editor-in-chief of the book series Event Management Theory and Methods (Goodfellow).Christine Lundberg is Professor of Tourism Management at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is co-editor (with Vassilios Ziakas) of The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism (2018).Maria Lexhagen is Professor of Tourism Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. Her research is focused on marketing and digitalisation in tourism and cuts across both business management and consumer behaviour.

• ContributorsPrologueChapter 1. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and InsightsPart 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism PlacemakingChapter 2. Warwick Frost and Jennifer Frost: Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, AustraliaChapter 3. Timo Thelen and Sangkyun Kim: The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites – Unintended and IntendedPart 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of FansChapter 4. Michael Fagence: 'Walking Battlefield Sites': An Experience of Secular PilgrimageChapter 5. Tatiana Chekalina, Maria Lexhagen, Christopher Hoffman and Gustav Grönskog: Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination SettingChapter 6. O. Hugo Benavides: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred IntersectPart 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture DestinationsChapter 7. Lincoln Geraghty: Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture TourismChapter 8. Kelly Palmer and Glen Thomas: @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey TouristChapter 9. Wen (Stella) Tian, Christine Lundberg and Alkmini Gkritzali: Millennials' Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking InvestigationPart 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the WorldChapter 10. Nicholas Wise: (Re)Celebrating Baseball’s Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristification in the Cornfields of IowaChapter 11. Rodanthi Tzanelli: Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary FuturesEpilogueChapter 12. Vassilios Ziakas, Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen: Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and ProblematicsIndex

The entanglements between popular culture and tourism are increasingly shaping places and leisure mobility patterns. The editors of this book have curated a compelling collection of emergent spatial imaginaries and rekindled placemaking practices to showcase tourism transformations in the Anthropocene. Solidly grounded in interdisciplinary domains, this volume will be of interest to both tourism and place marketers, as well as consumer culture scholars at large.